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Black Nativity

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Black Nativity is a retelling of the classic Nativity story with an entirely black cast. [1]

26 relations: Aaron Robinson (composer), Alvin Ailey, Angela Bassett, Biblical Magi, Black Nativity (film), Carmen de Lavallade, Christmas carol, Festival dei Due Mondi, Forest Whitaker, Go Tell It on the Mountain (song), Gospel music, Italy, Kasi Lemmons, Langston Hughes, Mary, mother of Jesus, Narration, Nativity play, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Off-Broadway, Ogg, Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa, Saint Joseph, Seattle, Soliloquy, The New York Times, Vocal range.

Aaron Robinson (composer)

Aaron Robinson is an American composer, conductor, and musicologist.

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Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City.

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Angela Bassett

Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress and activist.

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Biblical Magi

The biblical Magi (or; singular: magus), also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings, were, in the Gospel of Matthew and Christian tradition, a group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

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Black Nativity (film)

Black Nativity is a 2013 American musical drama film directed by Kasi Lemmons.

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Carmen de Lavallade

Carmen de Lavallade (born March 6, 1931) is an American actress, dancer and choreographer.

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Christmas carol

A Christmas carol (also called a noël, from the French word meaning "Christmas") is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, and which is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the surrounding holiday season.

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Festival dei Due Mondi

The Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy, since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958.

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker III (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Go Tell It on the Mountain (song)

"Go Tell It on the Mountain" is an African-American spiritual song, compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr., dating back to at least 1865, that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Kasi Lemmons

Kasi Lemmons (born Karen Lemmons; February 24, 1961, filmreference.com; accessed April 30, 2015.) is an American film director and actress, most notable for her work on the films Eve's Bayou, The Caveman's Valentine and Talk to Me.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Narration

Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

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Nativity play

A Nativity play or Christmas pageant is a play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus.

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metropolitan Opera House and the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan African music is characterised by a "strong rhythmic interest" that exhibits common characteristics in all regions of this vast territory, so that Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980) has described the many local approaches as constituting one main system.

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Saint Joseph

Joseph (translit) is a figure in the Gospels who was married to Mary, Jesus' mother, and, in the Christian tradition, was Jesus's legal father.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Soliloquy

A soliloquy (from Latin solo "to oneself" + loquor "I talk") is a device often used in drama when a character speaks to oneself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Vocal range

Vocal range is the measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Nativity

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