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Leonard De Paur

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Leonard Etienne De Paur (November 18, 1914 – November 7, 1998) was an African-American composer, choral director, and arts administrator. [1]

48 relations: African Americans, Alexander Smallens, Art song, Black people, Bordentown School, Bordentown, New Jersey, Caribbean, Carmen Jones, Civilian, Classical music, Columbia Artists Management, Columbia Records, Columbia University, Composer, Conducting, Eileen Southern, Federal Theatre Project, Folk music, Four Saints in Three Acts, George Gershwin, Glee club, Hall Johnson, Jester Hairston, John Serry Sr., John Wesley Work III, Juilliard School, Lewis & Clark College, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa, Manhattan, Military, Morehouse College Glee Club, Music of Africa, Musical composition, New York City, Oscar Hammerstein II, Porgy and Bess, Song, Spiritual (music), Summit, New Jersey, The New York Times, The Town Hall (New York City), United States Army Air Forces, United States Information Agency, University of Pennsylvania Glee Club, Virgil Thomson, Winged Victory (play), Work song.

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alexander Smallens

Alexander Smallens (January 1, 1889 – November 24, 1972) was a Russian-born American conductor and music director.

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Art song

An art song is a vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Bordentown School

The Bordentown School (officially titled the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, the State of New Jersey Manual Training School and Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth, though other names were used over the years), was a residential high school for African-American students, located in Bordentown in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

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Bordentown, New Jersey

Bordentown is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Carmen Jones

Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre.

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Civilian

A civilian is "a person who is not a member of the military or of a police or firefighting force".

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Columbia Artists Management

Columbia Artists Management, Inc. (CAMI) is an international talent management agency.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Eileen Southern

Eileen Jackson (1920 – October 13, 2002) was an African-American musicologist, researcher, author, and teacher.

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Federal Theatre Project

The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–39) was a New Deal program to fund theatre and other live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States during the Great Depression.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Four Saints in Three Acts

Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by American composer Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Glee club

A glee club is a musical group or choir group, historically of male voices but also of female or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in the singing of short songs—glees—by trios or quartets.

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Hall Johnson

Francis Hall Johnson (March 12, 1888 – April 30, 1970) was an American composer and arranger of African-American spiritual music.

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Jester Hairston

Jester Joseph Hairston (July 9, 1901 – January 18, 2000) was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor, and actor.

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John Serry Sr.

John Serry Sr. (born Giovanni Serrapica; January 29, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was a concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist and educator who performed in live concerts on the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks which were broadcast throughout the United States during the Golden Age of Radio.

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John Wesley Work III

John Wesley Work III (July 15, 1901 – May 17, 1967) was a composer, educator, choral director, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music.

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Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, informally referred to as Juilliard and located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905.

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Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in the northwest United States, located in Portland, Oregon.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa

This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Military

A military or armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.

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Morehouse College Glee Club

The Morehouse College Glee Club, founded in 1911, is the official choral group of Morehouse College.

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Music of Africa

The traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent, is historically ancient, rich and diverse, with different regions and nations of Africa having many distinct musical traditions.

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Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, either a song or an instrumental music piece, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating or writing a new song or piece of music.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Song

A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.

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Spiritual (music)

Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are generally Christian songs that were created by African Americans.

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Summit, New Jersey

Summit is an affluent city in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

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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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The Town Hall (New York City)

The Town Hall is a performance space, located at 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, in midtown Manhattan New York City.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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United States Information Agency

The United States Information Agency (USIA), which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy".

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University of Pennsylvania Glee Club

Founded in 1862, the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club is one of the oldest continually running glee clubs in the United States and the oldest performing arts group at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic.

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Winged Victory (play)

Winged Victory is a 1943 play by Moss Hart, created and produced by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a morale booster and as a fundraiser for the Army Emergency Relief Fund.

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Work song

A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either sung while conducting a task (usually to coordinate timing) or a song linked to a task which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.

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References

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

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