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...Misbehavin'. This handsome tribute to Fats Waller is a jumpin' Harlem cantata of urban night music. Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony Awards for Best Musical...
...Pulitzer Prize for "Secular Cantata...
Composer William Schuman received the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1943 for his work, "Secular Cantata No. 2, A Free Song...
...like a jovially lavish host, and the evening is like a rollicking party-a "rent party," perhaps, that Harlem Depression phenomenon where guests put a small sum in the household kitty and jazzmen improvised from midnight to dawn. There are 27 numbers in all and they compose an ebullient cantata of urban night music. The audience could almost sing along with Honeysuckle Rose, Mean to Me, Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, and that powerful elegy to black sorrow, Black and Blue...
Beatrice Erdely--Jordan Hall at 8:00. The Cantata Singers...