“Roots and Branches” - Music - University of California, Irvine

1940 – 1984 - Present -- Generation III – A Period of Modernism, Beginning with the
Town Hall debut of Theodore Charles Stone
• Generation III: Composers of Neo-Classical, Neo-Romantic, Avant-Garde, Serial, Electronic,
and Pan-Africanist Traditions, including:
H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)
Thomas Jefferson Anderson (b. 1928)
David Baker (b. 1931)
Charles Brown (b. 1940)
John Carter (b. 1932 – 1981?)
Edgar Rogie Clark (1913 – 1978)
Noel DaCosta (1930 – 2002)
John Duncan (1913 – 1975)
Mark Fax (1911 – 1974)
Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941)
Jacqueline Hairston (b. 1936)
Frederick Douglass Hall (1898 – 1982)
Eugene Hancock (1929 – 1993)
Robert A. Harris (b. 1938)
Ulysess Kay (1917 – 1995)
Thomas H. Kerr, Jr. (1915 – 1988)
Betty Jackson King (1928 – 1994)
Wendell Logan (b. 1940)
Charles Lloyd, Jr (b. 1948)
Maurice McCall
Lena McLin (b. 1929)
Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1941)
Undine Smith Moore (1904 – 1989)
Robert L. Morris
Robert Owens (b. 1925)
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson (b. 1932)
Julia Perry (1924 – 1979)
Evelyn Pittman (b. 1910)
Noah Ryder (1914 – 1964)
Hale Smith (1925 - 2009)
William Grant Still (1895 – 1978)
Howard Swanson (1907 – 1978)
Frederick Tillis (b. 1930)
George Walker (b. 1922)
Clarence Cameron White (1880 – 1960)
Olly Wilson (b. 1937)
John W. Work, Jr. (1901 – 1967)
• Generation III: Concert artists of the 1940 – 1984 modern tradition, most of whom develop
international careers include:
Adele Addison (b. 1925)
Donnie Rae Albert, bass-baritone
Betty Allen (b. 1930), mezzo-soprano
Roberta Alexander, soprano
Martina Arroyo (b. 1937), soprano
Carmen Balthrop (b. 1948), soprano
Priscilla Baskerville, soprano
Kathleen Battle (b. 1948), soprano
Raymond Bazemore
Harolyn Blackwell, soprano
Gwendolyn Bradley, soprano