Alfred Pittman Pew (October 10, 1916 in Kansas City, Missouri – December 16, 2005)[1][2] was a member of the Virginia Glee Club during the Glee Club 1935-1936 season, and was one of the accompanists. He was a second year during the season.[3]
Pew attended the Juilliard School of Music in piano, graduating in 1940.[4] He enlisted in the United States Army in 1941 as a dancer[5] and performed with and directed a band for the US Army Air Force.[6] Adopting Alfred Pew Brooks (after his father's middle name) as his stage name,[7] he became a well-known dancer, an early influencer of counterculture, founder of a modern dance company called Munt-Brooks, and later founder of the experimental theatre group, The Changing Scene.[8] The Changing Scene was the first to have featured profanity, nudity and sexual situations on a Denver stage and in 1968 they were raided by the Denver vice squad because, Brooks said, "officers misunderstood what an offering called Organum must have been about".[2]
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- ↑ Dodge, Clyde Arnold (1990). Addendum to the Boyle Genealogy. University of Madison - Wisconsin. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Addendum_to_the_Boyle_Genealogy/02pVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22alfred%20pittman%20pew%22.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Moore, John (December 20, 2005). "Theater's Al Brooks dies, The Changing Scene Experimental Theatre's founder brought artistic freedom to Denver stages". The Denver Post. http://www.denverpost.com/theater/ci_3325530. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
- ↑ Corks and Curls. 1936. p. 95. http://interactive.ancestry.com/1265/40391_B67289-00040/282135133?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fnew%3d1%26gsfn%3djames%2bm.%26gsln%3dbrewbaker%26rank%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26mswpn__ftp%3d%26msbdy%3d1940%26sbo%3d1%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d282135133%26db%3dYearbooksIndex%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d3&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord#?imageId=40392_B065526-00094.
- ↑ "Commencement Exercises" (PDF). Juilliard. 1940-05-29. p. 4. https://juilliard.resourcespace.com/pages/download.php?direct=1&noattach=true&ref=5683&ext=pdf&k=.
- ↑ "Alfred Pittman Pew". US, World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1939-1946 (Ancestry.com). https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/207450:8939?tid=&pid=&queryId=ea6ecf2d-a779-4310-8340-f7d970cdd35b&_phsrc=wCd56&_phstart=successSource. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ↑ "Summer Recruiting Campaign for WAC Opens Here". Independent-Record of Helena, Montana: p. 10. 1944-07-11. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/6581481/. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ↑ "Alfred Pittman Pew". US Social Security Claims Index, 1935-2014 (Ancestry.com). https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/30245524:60901?tid=&pid=&queryId=ea6ecf2d-a779-4310-8340-f7d970cdd35b&_phsrc=wCd56&_phstart=successSource. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ↑ "Oral History Interview with Alfred Brooks, Carson-Brierly Dance Library 'Living Legends of Dance' Oral Histories". University of Denver. 2004-02-25. http://digitaldu.coalliance.org/fedora/repository/codu:59134. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
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