February 23rd, 2012
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HUGHES Langston (1902-1967). Hughes, an African-American writer and poet, is best remembered for "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", The Weary Blues, and Shakespeare in Harlem. Program. 4pg. 6" x 9". June 19th 1938. Renaissance Casino [Harlem]. A 1938 program from the New York Negro Symphonic Choir that included a poetry reading from Hughes. He performed "Negro Speaks Of Rivers", "The Weary Blues", "I, Too, Sing America" and three others; he was featured as a "Extra added Attraction." The second page has a photograph of the symphonic choir, which performed works by Jean Sibelius and the African-American composer Henry Thacker Burleigh, a pupil of Dvorák. The program, printed by the Harlem firm of Square Deal Printers, has one horizontal fold, a chip to one margin, and some light ghosting of the ink.
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