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Adeline Denham McCall

Adeline Denham McCall came to Chapel Hill in 1918 and graduated from the university in 1922. She was music supervisor in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro public schools for thirty years, and she was one of the founders of the North Carolina Symphony in the early 1930s and helped set up its education program.

Source: NCpedia: McCall, Adeline Denham

Also found in catalogs as Adeline McCall.

1900–1989 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Adeline McCall → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

3 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Adeline Denham McCall.

Adeline Denham McCall, Yackety Yack, 1922
Adeline Denham McCall, Yackety Yack, 1922

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By Adeline Denham McCall

Adeline Denham McCall photographic collection, 1908-1950s (bulk 1940s-1950s).

McCall, Adeline, 1900-1989 · 1908

Fifty one photographs gathered by the music teacher Adeline McCall (1900-1989), spanning 1908 through the 1950s with most images from the 1940s and 1950s, in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Subjects include the Orange County Training School and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, school music instruction, African American children, the North Carolina Symphony, and portraits of Leonard Bernstein and A. C. Howell.

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About Adeline Denham McCall

A teachers training course in creative music for children : to be given by Adeline McCall, director of music, Chapel Hill Progressive Kindergarten, during the second term of the summer session, July 22 to August 18, 1937, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina

1937

An announcement of a teachers training course in creative music for children, given by Adeline McCall, director of music at the Chapel Hill Progressive Kindergarten, during the second summer term from 22 July to 18 August 1937. McCall lived from 1900 to 1989.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: McCall, Adeline, 1900-1989.

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Benjamin F. Swalin and Maxine M. Swalin papers, 1903-2006

1903

Papers of Benjamin F. Swalin (1901-1989) and Maxine M. Swalin, 1903 to 2006, roughly 7,000 items in 18.9 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4962. Subjects include the North Carolina Symphony, conductors and women musicians in the state, government aid to music, music appreciation in elementary schools, the music department at Chapel Hill, and the teacher Adeline McCall.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: McCall, Adeline, 1900-1989.

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. Adeline McCall plays piano in a Folk Music Institute laboratory concert The university's Institute of Folk Music held its second laboratory concert at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9, 1931, in Hill Music Hall, with Lamar Stringfield on flute, Adeline McCall on piano and Thor Johnson on viola. The program included a composition by Herbert Hazelman, an Asheville freshman.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1931, page 1 (Asheville Youth's Composition)
  2. A puppet Hansel and Gretel is staged in Adeline McCall's music series for children The Music Club and the Parent-Teacher Association presented Hansel and Gretel, a puppet show with music, at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9, 1936, in Hill Music Hall. It was the fifth in a series of music events for children under Adeline McCall's direction, and elementary school children sang songs from Humperdinck's opera.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1936, page 1 (Puppets, with Music)
  3. Chapel Hill Elementary pupils play carols with professional musicians at the school Christmas program At the Chapel Hill Elementary School Christmas programs on December 17, 1957, directed musically by Adeline McCall, supervisor of music in the Chapel Hill schools, children playing psalteries, violins and bells accompanied the carols with two harpists, violinist Dorothy Alden and flutist Dorothy Hickok. The programs also staged the play Alias Santa Claus.In the index: Chapel Hill Elementary School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 20, 1957, page 1 (Christmas program photograph)

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Picture: Adeline Denham McCall, Yackety Yack, 1922. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1922 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive

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