From Cincinnati CityBeat: On May 7, 1937 — exactly 77 years ago - TopicsExpress



          

From Cincinnati CityBeat: On May 7, 1937 — exactly 77 years ago this week — the Cincinnati May Festival presented the American premiere of The Ordering of Moses, an oratorio by Robert Nathaniel Dett, an African American composer, conductor and professor. It was broadcast nationally by NBC radio, received ecstatic ovations as well as glowing local and national reviews and was revived for the 1956 May Festival. But prior to 1956, the work was rarely heard and Dett seemed headed for obscurity.
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 22:00:00 +0000

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