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Frederick Tillis Papers Finding Aid : Special Collections and University Special Collections and University Archives : University Libraries Frederick Tillis Papers 1956-2010 10 boxes, 7 oversized (8 linear feet) Call no.: FS 156 Collection overview A composer, performer, poet, educator, and arts administrator, Fred Tillis was one of the major influences on the cultural life at UMass Amherst for forty years. Born in Galveston, Texas, in 1930, Tillis began playing jazz trumpet and saxophone even before his teens. A product of segregated schools, he graduated from Wiley College at the age of 19, and received his MA and PhD in music at the University of Iowa. As a performer and composer of unusual breadth, his work spans both the jazz and European traditions, and he has written for piano and voice, orchestra, choral pieces, chamber music, and in the African American spiritual tradition, drawing upon a wide range of cultural references. After teaching at Wiley, Grambling, and Kentucky State in the 1960s, Tillis was recruited to UMass in 1970 by his former adviser at Iowa, Philip Bezanson, to teach music composition and theory. Earning promotion to Professor in 1973, Tillis was appointed Director of the Fine Arts Center in 1978, helping to jump start some of the most successful arts initiatives the university has seen, including the the Afro American Music and Jazz program, the New World Theater, Augusta Savage Gallery, Asian Arts and Culture Program, and Jazz in July. Upon retirement from UMass in 1997, he was appointed Emeritus Director of the Fine Arts and remains active as a musician and poet. The Tillis papers document an extraordinary career in the arts, focused on Fred Tillis’s work as a composer. Consisting primarily of musical scores along with an assortment of professional correspondence relating to his publishing and miscellaneous notes, the collection offers insight into the evolution of Tillis’s musical vision from the 1970s into the new millennium. See similar SCUA collections: African American Jazz Performing arts UMass (1947- ) UMass administration UMass faculty Background on Frederick Tillis As a composer, performer, poet, educator, and arts administrator, Fred Tillis profoundly shaped the cultural and musical aspects of life at UMass Amherst for forty years from 1970-2010. Born in Galveston, Texas, in 1930, Tillis began to play jazz trumpet and saxophone before his teens. As a performer and composer of unusual breadth, his work spans both the jazz and European traditions, and he has written for piano and voice, orchestra, choral pieces, chamber music, and in the African American spiritual tradition, drawing upon a wide range of cultural references. Growing up in a segregated school system, Tillis enrolled in Wiley College—a college for African American students— when he was only 16, and graduated with his Bachelor’s at age 19. Immediately upon graduating from Wiley, he began to teach at the college, beginning a long career in music education. Following a year of teaching full-time at Wiley, Tills received his Master's from the University of Iowa under Phillip Bezanson in 1952. After a four-year hiatus serving in the Army Air Core—eventually serving as director of the Air Force band—Tillis then returned to teaching at Wiley and North Texas State for four years before returning to the University of Iowa to receive his PhD. From 1964 to 1970, Tillis taught at various universities until he was recruited by his former teacher Phillip Bezanson to Fred Tillis, Nov. 23, 1977 come teach full time at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. While at UMass, Tillis founded numerous programs and courses of study that greatly enriched the life of music majors and the general student body at the University. In 1978, Tillis was appointed the Director of the Fine Arts Center and helped start some of the University’s most successful art initiatives, including the Afro American Music and Jazz program, the New World Theater, Augusta Savage Gallery, Asian Arts and Culture Program, and the Jazz in July teaching program. Tillis was a part of a generation of instructors and administrators of color—including Roberta Uno; Max Roach; and Chancellor Ralph Bromery—who helped bring non-traditional courses of study and programs to the University, greatly increasing the diversity of both its student body and curricula. Upon retirement from UMass in 1997, Tillis was appointed Emeritus Director of the Fine Arts Center and remains active as a musician and poet. Scope of collection The Tillis papers document an extraordinary career in the arts and in arts administration, focused largely on Tillis’ role as a composer and poet. The collection includes a large number of original compositions, including multiple drafts over many years, allowing researchers to view his creative process over time. Some of the compositions include his “Spiritual Fantasy” series and “In the Spirit and the Flesh”, two of his most in-depth pieces, as well as compositions from before his time at UMass. There is also an assortment of professional correspondence between Tillis and his publisher, as well as miscellaneous documents detailing the development of the Fine Arts Center. Taken together, the collection offers insight to the development of Tillis’s vision and UMass cultural life as a whole from the 1970s into the new millennium. Series descriptions Series 1. Subject files 1956-2010 3 linear feet The subject files in Series 1 reflect Tillis's work as an administrator, teacher, and leader in the UMass community through lectures, correspondence, and a wide variety of administrative files. These files center around Tillis's leadership of the Fine Arts Center and document the Center's development, management, and its groundbreaking arts programming. Series 2. Compositions 1957-2010 5 linear feet Series 2 contains manuscript and printed scores for Tillis's compositions, in many cases including multiple drafts. These compositions span a significant portion of Tillis's musical career and reflect both the breadth of his musical inspiration and the details of his creative process in developing each composition. Inventory Series 1. Subject files 1956-2010 3 linear feet Academy of American Poets 1999-2000 Box 1: 1 Affirmative Action 1992-1995 Box 1: 2 Affirmative Action 1992-1995 Box 1: 3 Affirmative Action 1992-1995 Box 1: 4 Afro-American Music 1999, 2004 Box 1: 5 Afro-American Music 1999, 2004 Box 1: 6 Afro-American Music 1999, 2004 Box 1: 7 Afro-American Music 1999, 2004 Box 1: 8 Afro-American Music 1999, 2004 Box 1: 9 ALANA Honors Society Convocation Remarks 1996 Box 1: 10 America Music Center 2001 Box 1: 11 The American Music Teacher 1966 Box 2: 3 Amherst Cinema Plans 1999 Box 1: 12 Arts in India 2000 Box 1: 13 Ann Shengold 1990 Box 1: 14 Archbishop Desmond Tutu 1992 Box 1: 15 Association of American Cultures 1992 Box 1: 16 Atlantic Center for the Arts 2000 Box 1: 17 Australia/New Zealand Concert Tour 1992 Box 1: 18 Betsy Siesma Schedule 1990 Box 1: 20 Book Crafters 1999 Box 1: 21 Bright Moments Festival Concert 1994 Box 1: 22 Camille and William Cosby Center for Afro-American 1999 Box 1: 23 Culture Canadian Commission for UNESCO 1978 Box 1: 24 CCEBMS Speech 1993 Box 1: 25 CCEBMS Family Day Celebration Speech 1993 Box 1: 26 Center for African American Culture 2000 Box 1: 27 Center for Black Music Research--Columbia College, 1994 Box 1: 28 Chicago Chancellor's Lecture 1980-1981 Box 1: 29 Charlie Young: Saxophonist 2004 Box 1: 30 Clark-Atlanta University 2000 Box 1: 31 Community Arts: Health and Healing 2006 Box 1: 32 Community Arts: Health and Healing 2006 Box 1: 33 Community Arts--Health and Healing 2006 Box 1: 34 Creativity and Modern Maturity 2000 Box 1: 35 Dance in Three Stages 2006 Box 1: 36 D'Antoinette Handy 1980 Box 1: 37 Diversity: East vs. West (Multiculturalism) 2004 Box 1: 38 E-Publications: Black Male Writers 1990 Box 1: 39 Equal Opportunity and Diversity Article 1993 Box 1: 40 Experience India Festival Project 1990 Box 1: 41 Fine Arts Center: Barrier Free Access Elevator 1999 Box 1: 19 Fine Arts Center: Episode 1978 Box 1: 42 Fine Arts Center: Email Correspondence (re: Clinton and 1997 Box 1: 43 Race) Fine Arts Center: Friends of the Arts 1982-1983 Box 1: 54 Fine Arts Center: Letterhead undated Box 1: 44 Fine Arts Center: Mullins Center 1993 Box 1: 45 Fine Arts Center: Notecards undated Box 1: 47 Fine Arts Center: Organizational Assessment 1999 Box 1: 48 Five College Dance Department 1978 Box 1: 50 Ft. Hare South Africa 2000 Box 1: 51 Ft. Hare South Africa 1999-2000 Box 1: 52 Ft. Hare University--South Africa 1999-2000 Box 1: 53 Fax from Carlos Bermudo, "Experience India Festival" 1990 Box 1: 55 Galveston Musical 1997 Box 1: 56 Gospel Music Lecture @UMass 2007 Box 1: 57 Grambling College Music Department 1966 Box 1: 58 "It's All Music": Billy Taylor and Estela Olevsky 1998 Box 1: 59 Jazz Today Article for Sonos 1999 Box 1: 60 Jazz Bright Moments Festival 1987 Box 1: 61 Jazz in India/Jazz in July/Jazz Yatra 1999 Box 1: 62 Jazz at Lincoln Center 1995-1996 Box 1: 63 Jazz in July Guitar Instructor 1999 Box 1: 64 John Coltrane (William Cole Dissertation) 1970 Box 1: 65 Judith Tolnick 1990 Box 1: 66 Kensington Avenue School "ARTSTART" Collaborative 1996 Box 1: 67 Leadership Hexagon for Rotary Club 1993 Box 1: 68 Lively Arts 2000/South Africa Program 2001 Box 1: 69 Conference At Babson undated Box 2: 2 Miscellaneous Notifications ca. 2000 Box 2: 6 Monday Oct. 5, 1992 Newspaper 1992 Box 2: 7 Multicultaral Arts Council: Umass 1998 Box 2: 8 Music in Bangkok, Thialand 1986 Box 2: 5 New World Theater Records Catalogue 2008 Box 2: 11 News Clippings:
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