Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haunted Grotto. The evening was an emphatic justification of the aims of the 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...
...classics (Aida, Turandot and Otello have already been produced), the company will stage The Flying Dutchman in the spring. Looking ahead to the 1976 Bicentennial, the company has commissioned a new opera from Black Composer Ulysses Kay. It will be based on the 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...
James Johnson was the son of a Mississippi sharecropper who came north to Michigan to look for work in one of the big factories. He looked for two years, and finally landed a job at Chrysler's Eldon Avenue Gear and Axle Plant, where three thousand people work every day. He was assigned to the No. 2 oven...
Over the years, East St. Louis, a dingy and decaying industrial town on the banks of the Mississippi in southern Illinois, has had more than its share of corruption, racial strife and machine politics. In fact the city (pop. 70,000) has been the virtual fiefdom of a firmly entrenched Democratic machine...
Despite his knowledge of the tape's contents, Ford continued to say that he believed in the President's innocence while making a three-day tour of Mississippi and Louisiana. Ford's rationalization: any change in his position might lead the press to conclude "that I wanted to see the President resign to avoid an impeachment vote in the House and probable conviction vote in the Senate...