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By Eugene Thamon Simpson

in the course of his lifetime (1888-1970), corridor Johnson's live performance preparations of spirituals were played and recorded through stellar singers, similar to Marian Anderson, Leontyne cost, Kathleen conflict, Jessye Norman, and Denyce Graves, and have been sung through university and live performance choirs world wide. The corridor Johnson Negro Choir was once acclaimed in live performance halls all through the United States and Europe, on Broadway, on radio, and in Hollywood and will be obvious and heard in motion picture classics like Lost Horizon, Jezebel, Dumbo, and Song of the South. but the tale of Johnson's lifestyles and accomplishments as conductor, composer, arranger, violist, writer, and instructor hasn't ever been advised until eventually now.

Hall Johnson: His existence, His Spirit, and His Music is the 1st definitive biography of corridor Johnson, supplying either a old narrative of Johnson's complete lifestyles and paintings, in addition to a complete remedy of his motion picture occupation, his literary creations, his paintings in musical theatre, and an entire exploration of his song, with unique emphasis at the higher works. writer Eugene Thamon Simpson, the curator of the corridor Johnson assortment in New Jersey, has accrued very important items of the gathering, comparable to letters, studies, interviews, and different files by means of and approximately corridor Johnson, and referenced or released them the following for larger accessibility. The booklet additionally comprises own reminiscences of corridor Johnson by means of those that knew him as instructor, conductor, or expert colleague. Over 20 pictures, a discography, and a whole directory of Johnson's works support to record his achievements, making this a worthy source for these drawn to Black heritage reviews, the evolution of the Negro religious, and blacks in American Cinema and musical theatre.

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