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... be colored. But we must also look forward to the time when the orches­ tra itself will be such a splendid organization that world-famous soloists, irrespective of race, will deem it an honor to appear with it; and when a renowned guest conductor may enjoy working with it. Since so many artistic white people...

... forming quartets (there were only a few colleges in those days) singing all over the country for the cause of Negro education. Since the schools had to depend upon unreliable travel conditions, it was easier to have an all-male organization than a mixed one, and a quartet was cheaper than a glee club...

... Twain Society inviting Smith to be an honorary member (alongside such notable honorary members as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Edgar Lee Masters, according to the organization stationary) . Said the letter: "Dear Mr. Smith: For your contribution to literature, the Executive Committee has voted you...

...- The Folk Festival 209 tion. Each leader registers the name of his organization and his two or three selections. He is straightaway given his place number and checked to see if his songs are really Negro folk songs and not just hymns. While this is taking place, other groups are singing in the various...

...., arr. Album of Negro Spirituals. Rockville Centre, New York: Belwin, 1969. - - - , arr. "Behold that Star Spiritual. SSA and Organ. - - - , arr. "Go Tell It On the Mountain!" Spiritual. SATB and Organ. - - - , arr. "I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon." (Arr. by R. Vene) . Spiritual. SATB and Piano...

... in the same manner, only perhaps by a different leader. Different districts or associations are frequently engaged in contests. No cause is more sufficient to start a contest than the casual boast of one leader in the presence of another or the avowed superiority of a rival organization. When...

... in the history of culture in America, had achieved more than ordinary distinction. Others who might be named would be the Luca family, who were so successful that they were invited to and later did join with the then famous "Hutchinsons," a white concert-giving family, the combination forming an organization...

.... It is neither partisan nor class-conscious. It is the song of all of us, strong or weak, who struggle forward over our dead selves. The Negro women of the United States, who are quick to see through the eyes of the heart, by decision of their national organization, adopted this song. Others have adopted...

... as a weapon in the army of left-wing liberationists. Booleleviews BT People's Songs, Inc., was an organization built upon the long tradition of American protest singing dating as far back as antislavery abolitionism. Under the directorship of founding member Pete Seeger, People's Songs-during its three-year...

... discourse of story, is communicated from imagination to imagination by people bound in community (62-701 93). As a product of storytellers who use such story-idioms as music, poetry, art, drama, film, television, and romance to interpret and organize human experience, grace can be observed not only in "high...

... culture. To be Christian has come to be synonymous with being Western, and that means that our own cultural heritage is generally viewed as inferior, even pagan or evil by others as well as by ourselves. This situation throughout the continent is what led to the organization of this conference...

... in Africa (ACLCA) for their secretarial and support services in the organization of the workshop. We are also thankful to Father N. D. Pierce, the principal of the Cyrene Mission, for permission to print photographs of the artwork adorning the Cyrene Chapel located just outside of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe...

... will there be any minimum or maximum playing time limit established. This commission is merely an expression that this organization and its conductor have faith in the talent and creative ability of certain people in the musical world, and wish to express this confidence by commissioning a work for this orchestra...

... Ogbomosho, Nigeria. The organ was introduced by Western missionaries and is still used by many Western-originated churches. Dynamism in African Christian Music 21 community life and existential realities They are creative in worship, music, organization and self-support."22 Independent Christianity...

.... Bearing his interests in popular culture, he promptly founded the fournal of Popular Culture (owing to a subsidy from the university). Rapid development ensued, and in 1970 he founded the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. This organization, located at the university, supervises the Popular Press...

... by such an organization, when Vernon Robinson and his Federal Symphony of San Bernardino, California played my Africa and my Kaintuck with Verna Arvey at the solo piano. Mr. Robinson has played many other American works, some of them for the first time. For instance, he has played Leach's Concert Overture, Carton's...

.... Griff had the security team appear in camouflage fatigues, tams or the white suits and crowns of the Nation of Islam's paramilitary FOI (Fruit of Islam). Essien-Udon's comment on the importance of the FOI also explains the significance of Public Enemy's security team: "The organization makes its members...

...-fifth birthday sponsored by Oberlin Conservatory of Music, which I helped organize when I was a professor there. What is most memorable about the experience was Still's personal grace, charm, dignity, and profound sense of artistic and individual integrity. This warm and honorable person clearly...

... a contribution toward friendship between nations. Today, ASCAP is an organization which helps to support Ameri­ can creative artists by affording them a financial return, during their lifetimes, for their work. ASCAP is also an organization which does not practice segregation. Negro members are rated according...

.... The spiritual does not make up the entire body of a church music program anymore, as it did twenty-five or thirty years ago in many sections of the country. The Negro church has become more and more literate and ambitious, and the ministers are becoming more capable in the matter of church organization...