Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes appears in the following:

National Association of Authors : The Writer's Position in America

Sunday, June 23, 1957

Langston Hughes on "The Position of the Negro Writer in America."

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13th Annual Festival

Tuesday, February 12, 1952

WNYC is presented with the first award for "public service in music" given by the Kousseuvitzky Music Foundation.

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Town Hall Concert

Tuesday, February 15, 1949

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

10th Annual WNYC American Music Festival, February 15, 1949

Performances by Maurice Wilk, Kenneth Spencer, Paul Olefsky, and the New York Woodwind Quintet. Music by Halsey Stevens, William ...

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Blues Symposium

Thursday, June 09, 1938

Langston Hughes talks of "songs folks make up when their heart hurts" and he says that the blues and spirituals are "the two great Negro gifts to American music."

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