In this 250th anniversary year of the United States, pianist Lara Downes is traveling the country collecting conversations with scholars, searching for our history through songs. Her latest stop is a ...
“A native opera in jazz, the music to be by W. Franke Harling, the words by Laurence Stallings, an original form, original context . . . .” so sketchily have run the announcements of Deep River (TIME, ...
"Unvoiced longings": Du Bois and the "sorrow songs" -- Swan songs and art songs: the spirituals and the "new Negro" in the 1920s -- "The twilight of aestheticism ...
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