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...case of Still, A Bayou Legend reveals him as a kind of American Grieg -a miniaturist gifted with melody, an unerring sense of color and a fondness for the folklore. Although the performers in Jackson were all black, Legend is not especially a black opera, as the composer and his librettist wife Verna Arvey are the first to point...
...Jackson company. Until the founding of Opera/South, there was little opportunity in Mississippi for blacks to sing opera. The backing of three Jackson-area black colleges-Jackson State, Tougaloo and Utica Junior-has made a musical theater workable. Students sing in the chorus, build sets and fashion costumes. Bayou Legend's simple but effective one-piece set-a double-trunked oak tree that for the Act II duet between Bazile and Aurore turns magically into a haunted grotto-required only $2,000 of the company's annual $102,000 budget, a moneysaving feat that could not have been...
...Civil War novel Jubilee, by Mississippi's Margaret Walker. With all that in the works, General Manager Dolores Ardoyno has only one other wish: "I really would love it if other opera companies would have the initiative at least to take a look at Billy Still's Bayou Legend...
Nestled among the cotton and soybean fields of Mississippi's table-flat Bolivar County, the tiny (pop. 2,100) all black city of Mound Bayou has few stores, little in the way of employment, and even less for the diversion of its residents. But Mound Bayou does have one civic asset: the Delta Community Hospital and Health Center Inc., a black-run medical complex that provides the people of Bolivar and neighboring counties with first-rate health care regardless of their ability to pay. Mound Bayou may not have its prized institution much longer. The federal aid necessary...
...Mound Bayou's community hospital owes its existence to P.M. Smith, head of a black fraternal organization called the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Appalled by the primitive and inadequate hospital facilities for blacks in the area, Smith used money originally earmarked for one of his organization's temples to build the Mound Bayou hospital...