 Over the next several years, Richmond also presented such noted artists as pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, singer and composer J. Rosamond Johnson, pianist Harold Samuel, contralto Margarete Matzenauer, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Harrison Keller, Denoe Leedy, violinist Albert Spalding, the People's Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra.Aaron Richmond’s Celebrity Series was launched (12 years after his first concert series) for the 1938-39 concert season.In 1953, still under Aaron Richmond’s direction, the Celebrity Series affiliated with Boston University and took the name, the Boston University Celebrity Series.