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Richard Adler

1921–2012 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Student Richard Adler founds the Carolina Workshop, which starts UNC's Fine Arts Festival According to Richard Adler, then a dramatic art student, he drew up a charter for the Carolina Workshop in 1940 with a $50 University grant to bring the arts before the student body; its first guest was Robert Frost, who read in Hill Hall, and in 1941 it organized the first Fine Arts Festival of student painting, drama and music with a closing professional panel. People: Richard Adler, Robert Frost Place: Hill Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 3, 1985, p. 1
  2. Richard Adler's Bicentennial Commemorative Suite has its premiere in Memorial Hall The N.C. Symphony with the Carolina Choir and Chamber Singers, under guest conductor Nicholas Dodd, gave the first performance of 'The University of North Carolina Bicentennial Commemorative Suite' on October 11. Alumnus Richard Adler, composer of 'The Pajama Game' and 'Damn Yankees,' wrote the five-movement work on a 1986 commission from Chancellor Christopher Fordham, setting words from Thomas Wolfe's 'Look Homeward, Angel' and closing with 'Hark the Sound.' People: Richard Adler Place: Memorial Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Nicholas Dodd, Christopher FordhamSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1993, p. 3

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By Richard Adler

University of North Carolina bicentennial commemorative suite

Adler, Richard · 1993

Orchestral score by Richard Adler written for the University of North Carolina bicentennial in 1993, two hundred years after the university's beginnings in 1793. Occasional music for the Chapel Hill campus in its anniversary year.

About Richard Adler

Bicentennial Observance Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1903-1995 (bulk 1987-1994).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bicentennial Observance Office · 1903

Planning files for the university's bicentennial at Chapel Hill, dated 1903 to 1995 with the bulk from 1987 to 1994, about 12,000 items in 15.5 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40135. Subjects include the composer Richard Adler and his bicentennial commemorative suite, the television program 'Crossroads on the hill', and the Davie Poplar, the historic tree on the Chapel Hill campus.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Adler, Richard, 1921-2012.

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