Heading: (African American, 1941-1957)
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Title: Three programs for notable African American music concerts
Place Published: Lexington, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; and New York City
Publisher:
Date Published: 1941-1957
Description:

Three programs comprising:

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  Program of the Third Annual Negro Song Festival at the Gymnasium of the University of Kentucky, Lexington: May 11, 1941. Sponsored by the WPA Recreation Project. 4 mimeographed pages + decorative wrappers, stapled.


• 
  Fifteenth Festival of Music and Fine Arts, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee: April 19-22, 1944. 14 pp.+ wrappers.


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  Countee Cullen Memorial Concert, Fourth Annual Concert of Negro Music and Poetry. New York: Margaret Bonds Chamber Music Society, April 14, 1957. 6 pp., mimeographed.

The first is a rare New Deal-era imprint of a concert sponsored by the WPA Kentucky Recreation Project, with 24 juvenile and adult choral groups performing traditional and modern spirituals. WorldCat locates no institutional copy.

The second, at Fisk, was an elaborate five-day program which included not only an orchestral accompaniment for tenor Roland Hayes, production of a 17th century opera, and recitals of dance from Africa, India, China, Mexico and the West Indies, but also speeches and lectures, including artist Rockwell Kent discussing "Art as a Cultural Element in the World Community".

The New York concert, in memory of poet Countee Cullen, featured a String Quartet and famed African-American composer and performer Margaret Bonds as pianist and director.

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