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Tag: Music
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He Inherited a New Orleans Jazz Institution. What Does He Owe?
In the 1960s, Ben Jaffe’s family founded Preservation Hall to help keep a defining Black art form alive. In 2022, that’s a complicated part for a white musician to play.
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Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else
The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama has four shows this season. “If you can hear the world singing, it’s your job to write it down,” she said.
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The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall
Etienne Charles’s composition for the reopening of the hall honors the Afro-diasporic musical heritage of the neighborhood razed to build Lincoln Center.
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Rita Gardner, an Original ‘Fantasticks’ Star, Is Dead at 87
In 1960 she originated the lone female role in an Off Broadway show that became part of theater history thanks to a record-setting run.