[Choir] Fw: Celebrate the Life of Bass Paul Robeson: Athlete, Actor, Activist

[Bethany Reeves]

Dear Singers,


The original invite to this event, sent to the campus community, neglects to point out that Paul Robeson was ALSO a tremendous singer. A bass, he's most famous for his rendition of "Old Man River" (1936 film, not '51):


https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=paul+robeson+old+man+river&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001


I hope some of you can make the talk on Robeson at the Library this coming Monday 10/26, 4pm.


Best,

BR


Dr. Bethany Reeves
Director, Stevens Choir & DeBaun PAC Voice Studio
Music Program Coordinator, DeBaun Performing Arts Center
Stevens Institute of Technology
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The Samuel C. Williams Library and the College of Arts and Letters

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October 22, 2015

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Celebrate the Life of Paul Robeson: Athlete, Actor, Activist



The Samuel C. Williams Library and the College of Arts and Letters invite you to a celebration of the life of Paul Robeson on Monday, October 26, 2015, at 4 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Library.  We will join Professor Lindsey R. Swindall to also celebrate the paperback publication of her Robeson biography with a special afternoon of readings and songs.  Book signing and refreshments will follow.

Lindsey R. Swindall joined the Stevens faculty from Sam Houston State University, where she was a visiting assistant professor of history.  She earned her doctorate in Afro-American Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  She has written several books on radical activism in the New York City area including The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello and Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art.  She is also the author of The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955, which came out in 2014.

All members of the Stevens community are welcome to attend this event.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Copies of Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art will be available for $20.



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