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Street Scene (book by Elmer Rice; music & lyrics by Kurt Weill & Langston Hughes; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman & the Playwrights' Co.) is much more folk opera than musical-a re-handling of Elmer Rice's famous outside slice of life almost entirely in musical terms. There are arias as well as tunes; septets, choral passages, large-scale orchestral effects, recitatives. As music, some of this is fancy, facile, too high-pitched. But, thanks to the rest of the score and to the residual vitality in Elmer Rice's play, Street Scene is steadily interesting musical theater...
...book-loving Baptist preacher, Johnson had been a brilliant sociology student at Virginia Union University and the University of Chicago, sweated his way through as stevedore, ditchdigger, mess boy, night watchman and waiter. In 1923 he founded Opportunity, a Negro journal which published the work of men like Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson, gave a lift to musicians like W. C. Handy and William Grant Still...
...Langston Hughes, noted American Negro poet, stressed the still urgent need for a solution to the current problem of racial oppression in this country, in an address presented at Agassiz Hall Tuesday night...
...development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People hopes to feature such Negro eminents as Scientist Dr. George Washington Carver, Author Langston Hughes, Artist Aaron Douglas, Fighter Joe Louis many another...
...fight to gain an equal footing with the white man here as in every other field in which he has tried to make headway. There is every reason to claim that jazz is the Negro's own artistic achievement. In every form of artistic expression there is an occasional Langston Hughes or Paul Robeson or Richard Wright, but in jazz the Negro comes into his own in a medium he himself invented and developed...