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...Elma Lewis Center put on Langston Hughes's Black Nativity last year, to considerable applause, I think. Anyway, they've brought it back, and it's at Sanders Theater for the weekend...
...Jazz enthusiasts should take special note of Byrd, playing with his Blackbyrds. Byrd, the best horn man this side of Miles, has created a style all his own that's definitely worth catching. This is the first in a series of open air Sunday concerts being produced for the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts this summer, and if they're all this good the better part of your musical needs will be taken care of for the next two months. Tickets cost $5.50 in advance and $6.50, which isn't too expensive at all considering any one of these...
Among the other guests were Dr. Robert Ebert, dean of the Medical School; John Lewis, director of the Votes Education Project; Elma Lewis, director of the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts; and Paul Parks, director of the Boston Model Cities Administration...
BLACK NATIVITY, by Langston Hughes, is a Christmas play with poetry, dance, and gospel music, presented by the Elma Lewis School and National Center of Afro-American Artists, and sponsored by the Mather House Music Society. Elma Lewis is famous, and Langston Hughes is good, and that combination's rare but impressive. Saturday at 8:30 p.m., in Sanders Theater...
Obvious choices, notably Sen. George McGovern, were passed over--people who could deliver an address worth the time spent listening. There are many: Elma Lewis, the founder of the Boston Afro-American Cultural Center who received an honorary degree from Harvard last year; Saul Bellow, another honorary recipient in 1972; J. Anthony Lewis '48, the Times columnist who is returning for his 25th Reunion this year...