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Willis Conover and Duke Ellington

Photograph of Willis Conover and Duke Ellington at the Watergate Barge, in Washington, D.C.

Date: 194X

Creator: McNeill News Photo Service

Item Type: Photograph

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Willis Conover and family

Home movie of Willis Conover and his third wife, Johara, with unidentified family members.

Date: 1958~

Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds

Creator: Conover, Willis

Item Type: Video

Willis Conover at the microphone

Photograph of Willis Conover in a publicity photo for radio station WWDC.

Date: 1946~

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover at the microphone

Photograph of Willis Conover at a microphone at radio station WWDC, Washington, D.C., holding a cigarette in one hand, and the May 1949 issue of Metronome magazine in the other. Fran Warren is on the cover of the magazine.

Date: 1949

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover at WTBO

Photograph of Willis Conover at WTBO in Cumberland, MD.

Date: 1940~

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover at WWDC

Photograph of Willis Conover and 3 unidentified men at radio station WWDC.

Date: 1946~

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover broadcasting from Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C.

Photograph of Willis Conover, standing at the microphone at the right, with two unidentified colleagues, broadcasting for radio station WWDC-FM in the South American Room of the Hotel Statler (now the Capital Hilton), Washington, D.C.

Date: 195X

Creator: Norm Robbins

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover conducting an interview at WWDC

Photograph of Willis Conover interviewing three unidentified men.

Date: 1946~

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover in military uniform at WWDC

Photograph of Willis Conover in military uniform, at radio station WWDC.

Date: 1945~

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover interviews Stan Kenton

Photograph of Willis Conover and Stan Kenton in an interview at radio station WWDC, in Washington, D.C., likely in 1947.

Date: 1947?

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover interviews Stan Kenton (2)

Photograph of Willis Conover and Stan Kenton.

Date: 1947~

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover interviews Stan Kenton (3)

Photograph of Willis Conover and Stan Kenton.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover: "Navy Shakes Up Big Brass"

Photograph of Willis Conover and an unidentified man in an apparent publicity photo for radio station WWDC.

Date: 1946~

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover on television

Photograph of Willis Conover on television, likely for WNBW (now WRC).

Date: 1951~

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover, Tommy Tucker, Amy, and Kerwin

Photograph of Willis Conover, Tommy Tucker, Amy (possibly Arnell), and Kerwin (possibly Somerville), seated around a microphone. An unidentified man is visible in the background at right.

Date: 1940

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover with Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and others

Photograph of Willis Conover, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and other band members and friends.

Date: April 1946

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover, with glasses askew

Photograph of Willis Conover with his glasses askew on his face.

Date: 194X

Item Type: Photograph

Willis Conover with three people

Photograph of Willis Conover with three unidentified people.

Date: 1947~

Item Type: Photograph

Wind Castle

Recording of Satoshi Sumitani's Wind Castle.

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Date: 1990/1991

Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds

Creator: Sumitani, Satoshi, 1932-

Item Type: Sound

Windmills bordered by Nothingness

Recording of Philip Samartzis' Windmills bordered by Nothingness. The original material in this work is made up of electroacoustic transformations of guitar and percussion. The composer altered them in a such a way to suggest the flow, texture, and sound of an ancient windmill.

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Date: 1999

Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds

Creator: Samartzis, Philip

Item Type: Sound

Windows

Recording of Richard Zvonar's Windows for two-channel tape. The piece is described by Zvonar as being "an animated film for the ears." The sonic images are meant to invoke glimpses of alien landscapes, unknown and yet strangely familiar. Sound materials were taken from choral sound masses, filtered and gated through a Buchla 200 Series synthesizer. No electronic sound materials were used.

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Date: 1977

Duration: 9 minutes 07 seconds

Creator: Zvonar, Richard

Item Type: Sound

Windows/Strata

Recording of Stephen Gibson's Windows/Strata. This piece seeks to create a idiomatic relationship between the sonic qualities of the employed sampled and the outline of a large-scale form. These samples were recorded at the Buffalo River Grain Elevators, a series of cylindrical concrete structures about 150 feet tall as well as voices from the other participants.

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Date: 1991

Duration: 22 minutes 37 seconds

Creator: Gibson, Stephen, 1948-

Item Type: Sound

The winds of the Balk-an (The iron mountain)

Recording of Simo Lazarov's The winds of the Balk-an (The iron mountain). The composer compares this piece to the feeling of standing in front of a mountain and feeling the oppression of its grandeur.

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Date: 1999

Duration: 13 minutes 39 seconds

Creator: Lazarov, Simo, 1948-

Item Type: Sound

The Wings of Nike

Recording of Barry Truax's The Wings of Nike. Barry Truax created the music with real-time granular synthesis. The work is in four sections. The visuals are based on a "sampled" visual image of the famous statue, the Winged Victory (or Nike) of Samothrace, and the music is mainly based on two sampled phonemes of vocal sound, one male, the other female. The work is an extension of an earlier collaboration, Divan (1985), which explored sound-image relationships. The computer images realized with … more

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Date: 1987

Duration: 17 minutes 05 seconds

Creator: Truax, Barry

Item Type: Sound

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Willis Conover and Duke Ellington

Willis Conover and family

Willis Conover at the microphone

Willis Conover at the microphone

Willis Conover at WTBO

Willis Conover at WWDC

Willis Conover broadcasting from Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C.

Willis Conover conducting an interview at WWDC

Willis Conover in military uniform at WWDC

Willis Conover interviews Stan Kenton

Willis Conover interviews Stan Kenton (2)

Willis Conover interviews Stan Kenton (3)

Willis Conover: "Navy Shakes Up Big Brass"

Willis Conover on television

Willis Conover, Tommy Tucker, Amy, and Kerwin

Willis Conover with Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and others

Willis Conover, with glasses askew

Willis Conover with three people

Wind Castle

Windmills bordered by Nothingness

Windows

Windows/Strata

The winds of the Balk-an (The iron mountain)

The Wings of Nike