Blacks in Classical Music: A Personal History PDF
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/blacksinclassicaOOabdu BLACKS IN CLASSICAL MUSIC OtherBooksByRaoulAbdul FamousBlackEntertainers of Today The Magic ofBlack Poetry Three ThousandYearsofBlackPoetry {withAlanLomax) Blacks in classical music A Personal History RAOUL ABDUL By DODD, MEAD COMPANY & NEW YORK Acknowledgment is made to the Weintraub Music Company for permission to reprint excerpts from the Short Symphony and the Suite for Piano and Cello, both by Howard Swanson, copyright 1951 by the Weintraub Music Company, NewYork, NewYork. Excerpt from "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes reprinted by permis- sion of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated. Copyright 1926 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Renewed. Copyright © 1977 by Raoul Abdul All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher Printed in the United States of America 123456789 10 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Abdul, Raoul. Blacks in classical music. Includes index. 1. Musicians, Black—Biography. I. Title. ML385.A27 780'.92'2 [B] 77-11645 ISBN 0-396-07394-8 TO THE MEMORY OF ROLAND HAYES AND TO RICHARD MAYER HABER Acknowledgments I should like to express my gratitude to the editors of the newspapers that have provided a forum for me to express my ideas aboutmusic and musicians over a period of twenty- seven years. Charles Loeb, city editor of the Cleveland Call and Post, took me under his personal supervision when I was an eight- een-year-old kid fresh out of high school. He guided my early steps through rewrites, obituaries, and music reviews. Alfred Duckett, executive editor of the New York Age, appointed me music critic on the recommendation of Lang- stonHughes. He later arranged formy column, "The Cultural Scene," to be syndicated nationally by the Associated Negro Press. James Hicks, executive editor of the New York Amsterdam News, appointed me music critic. Hicks, Publisher John Procope, andhis assistant, Lucia Robinson, have stoodbehind my editorial views with fierce loyalty.
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