Research Catalog

Title

Music and ballet: Blues symposium [sound recording].

Publication

1938.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Deakin, Irving.
• Sorel, Felicia.
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
• Kingsley, Herbert.
• Herzer, Clifford.

Found In

Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 70

Summary

Music and ballet, no. 70 (ca. 39 min.). Unidentified announcer introduces and plays recorded excerpt from Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of the tumblers. A recorded excerpt from a blues song is played as an announcer identified only as Rex Benwehr [spelling uncertain] introduces the program; Irving Deakin speaks about the blues and introduces the first guest speaker, Langston Hughes; Hughes speaks about the blues; Deakin introduces Felicia Sorel; Sorel speaks about folk songs, including spirituals, blues, and ballads, and dance; her own choreography set to blues music, including blues songs written by Hughes; Deakin introduces Herbert Kingsley and a number of blues songs, which Kingsley plays and sings as accompaniment to Sorel's dancing: The Sing Sing prison blues and The rainy weather blues; Perilous love by W.C. Handy; and the blues trio by Langston Hughes: The hard luck blues, The young gal blues, and The hard daddy blues. Closing remarks and announcements.

Alternative Title

• Blues symposium
• Dance Audio Archive.

Subjects

• Audiotapes > Sorel, F
• Audiotapes > Hughes, L
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908 > Snegurochka Pl︠i︡aska skomorokhov
• Music and dance
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• Audiotapes > Deakin, I
• Kingsley, Herbert
• Sorel, Felicia

Note

• Sound quality is good overall except for parts of track 7, but the recording is marred by extraneous hissing.
• Blues symposium, the 70th program in the radio series Music and ballet, with Irving Deakin as host, broadcast on June 9, 1938 by radio station WQXR, New York. Langston Hughes, Felicia Sorel, and Herbert Kingsley participate as guest speakers, and pianist Clifford Herzer participates as a pianist.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1, no. 70

OCLC

497827440

Title

Music and ballet: Blues symposium [sound recording].

Imprint

1938.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.

Local Note

Request *MGZTL 4-1, no. 70.

Added Author

Deakin, Irving. Host

Sorel, Felicia. Speaker

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Speaker

Kingsley, Herbert. Instrumentalist

Herzer, Clifford. Instrumentalist

Added Title

Blues symposium

Found In:

Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 70