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Paul Robeson at Carnegie Hall is a live album by Paul Robeson, released in 1959 on Vanguard Records. [2] Track listing ... "Going Home" Antonín Dvořák, ...
Paul Leroy Robeson (/ ˈ r oʊ b s ən / ROHB-sən; [3] [4] April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances.
Henry "Harry" Thacker Burleigh was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1866 to Elizabeth Burleigh and Henry Thacker Burleigh Sr. Harry's grandfather, Hamilton Waters, was granted manumission from slavery in Somerset County, Maryland, after paying $55 ($50 for him and $5 for his mother) in 1832 and receiving a certificate of freedom in 1835.
Biblical Songs was written between 5 and 26 March 1894, while Dvořák was living in New York City. It has been suggested that he was prompted to write them by news of a death (of his father Frantisek, or of the composers Tchaikovsky or Gounod, or of the conductor Hans von Bülow); but there is no good evidence for that, and the most likely explanation is that he felt out of place in the ...
Songs of Free Men is a studio album by Paul Robeson, recorded in early 1942 and released on Columbia Masterworks in 1943. Track listing
"Wagon Wheels" has been recorded dozens of times over the years, by artists including Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra and Paul Robeson in 1934, and Sammy Davis Jr. , The Platters , Sonny Rollins and Johnnie Ray later on.
George Clooney admits he once assumed his age difference with wife Amal Clooney would be insurmountable.. In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times to promote his Broadway debut in Good ...
Robeson was unable to find the financial backing saying that the "Motion Picture industry, and so refuse to allow such a story," preferring to profitable films of "mediocre entertainment." film never made 1958 Othello Film: Robeson was reportedly going to finally bring his renowned portrayal of Othello to the big screen in a Soviet backed ...