Tag Archives: Kurt Weill

Street Scene: Langston Hughes, Kurt Weill, Elmer Rice

July 11, 2012 It started out as a play by Elmer Rice: a Broadway run of 601 shows, the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, the  movie in 1931. Kurt Weill saw it in Berlin, both the play and the film, and … Continue reading

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Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence

February 8, 2012 Langston Hughes never went to Black Mountain College, but maybe he didn’t need to. 1948-49 was emblematic.  A no doubt incomplete list of what happened during those months: in June 1948, Langston Hughes moved into 20 East … Continue reading

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