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Storytelling ain’t always love, peace, and kumbaya. Sometimes our favorite storytellers beef with each other in public. And we, the audience, eat it up.

In this episode, Katie and Yves take a walk down a beef-laden memory lane, reexamining feuds between Zora Neale Hurston and other Harlem Renaissance writers.

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For the latest episode of Harmonious World, I am joined by sax player, composer and educator David Bixler to discuss his latest album, The Langston Hughes Project Volume 1.

As part of the conversation, David introduces the Langston Hughes poem Mother to Son, which is simply stunning and probably an inspiration for us all.

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When thinking of a Renaissance names like Da Vinci and Shakespeare, come to mind, but America has a Renaissance of its own, and instead of recycling a culture it was about creating one. Join Dave and Greg as they discuss the philosophy, literature, music, and movement that is the Harlem Renaissance.

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A poet reads to a room full of youths who seem to have some residual resentment to the poet. The poet doesn’t mind — he understands, and calls on the listeners to share in the power of focused anger, to make it a motivation for their creativity.

Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) is the author of The Feathered Heart (Michigan State University Press, 1998) and Exploding Chippewas (Triquarterly Books, 2002). He lives in Chicago, where he teaches at DePaul University.

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In Time Of Silver Rain By Langston Hughes

In time of silver rain 
The earth puts forth new life again,
Green grasses grow 
And flowers lift their heads,
And over all the plain 
The wonder spreads
Of Life,
Of Life,
Of life!
In time of silver rain
The butterflies lift silken wings 
To catch a rainbow cry,
And trees put forth new leaves to sing
In joy beneath the sky
As down the roadway
Passing boys and girls
Go singing, too,
In time of silver rain 
When spring 
And life 
Are new.

Poems are green and Poetry is mean.
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In this episode we read an essay by Langston Hughes, a black American author and a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In this essay he discusses the all encompassing nature of Jazz and how it has formed new ways of connecting to people.

The essay can be read here:
Jazz as Communication by Langston Hughes

Before You Go co-host Nicole Franklin has the honor of inviting her longtime friend  Juanita Smith who shares memories of her composer husband Hale Smith with Bryant Monteilh and the audience. It's a walk through musical history as Hale Smith's work in the genres of classical, jazz and spirituals brought him, Juanita and their family from Cleveland, Ohio to New York City. 

Upon arriving in NYC, Juanita quickly found work at the United Nations and Hale was surrounded by a nucleus of talent which included Kathleen Battle, Randy Weston, Melba Liston, Dizzy Gillespie, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal and more.  Juanita is now the publisher of her late husband's spiritual arrangements and because of her impeccable memory, her stories are filled with evidentiary facts and fascinating encounters. 

This episode originally aired on KBLA Talk 1580 in Los Angeles.

The music of Hale Smith heard in this episode may be found here:
 

1) This Little Light Of Mine"

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Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America This Little Light of Mine (arr. H. Smith) · Icy Rene Simpson I, too ℗ 2012 Longhorn Music Released on: 2012-08-07 Artist: Icy Rene Simpson Artist: Artina McCain Composer: Hale Smith Composer: Traditional
 

2) "Contours" Hale Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t1YYuz7DV4&t=83s
 

Hale Smith (1925-2009): Contours, for Orchestra (1960) --- The Louisville Orchestra diretta da Robert Whitney 
 

3) Bess, You is My Woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Panv8OJjgHk
 

"Bess, You Is My Woman" From the Opera, "Porgy and Bess" Music by George Gershwin Lyrics by Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin Featuring Todd Duncan and Anne Brown Accompanied by the Decca Symphony Orchestra Directed by Alexander Smallens Recorded May 15, 1940 Decca 29069A

 

4) I Love Music

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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group I Love Music · Ahmad Jamal Trio The Awakening ℗ 1970 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1997-01-01 Producer: Ed Michel Composer: Emil Boyd Composer: Hale Smith 
 

5) I Want to Die Easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94EwXQTKrlY
 

Anthony Anderson- Baritone 

Michael Crabill- Piano

 

6) I Love Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFk5lKLHMw8

From Hale Smith's tribute concert. T.K. Blue, Saxophone & Flute Carlton Holmes, Piano Corcoran Holt, Bass Alvin Atkinson, Drums Benny Powell, Trombone
 

Joshua and Angela acquaint us with a groundbreaking composer and pianist, Margaret Bonds. Joshua takes us through the life of Margaret Bonds, who was at the epicenter of cultural and artistic expression during the turn of the 20th century, collaborating with luminaries Florence Price and Langston Hughes, among others. We hear a performance of Bonds' Montgomery Variations, performed by the University of Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, a stunning example of the composer's ability to "score" the civil rights movement.

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"Montgomery Variations" by Margaret Bonds, performed by the University of Connecticut Symphony Orchestra

The Interview: 

Yuval Taylor’s dual biography Zora & Langston (Norton), documents the lives, times, and work of novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston and poet and writer Langston Hughes, two towering pillars of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 30s. Taylor writes about their intimate (and productive) friendship, their falling out with one another (and their patron), and the regret they both lived with until their deaths for not reconciling with one another. 

The Reading: 

Artist and musician Senon Williams reads selections from Langston Hughes’ The Weary Blues, Hughes' first poetry collection published by Knopf in 1927.

Music credits:

Music composed by Florence Price
Performed by Fort Smith Symphony and John Jeter

**Other audio:

Zora clips:

 From a session with Alan Lomax / Library of Congress (YouTube)

Langston clips:

Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes (YouTube)

The Weary Blues with Langston Hughes, Charles Mingus, and Leonard Feather (YouTube)

Discussing Chapter 17 of A People's History of the United States

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In this episode we take an exploratory view of the Harlem Renaissance. We pick from our previous episode at post reconstruction and begin with the great migration covering the mass movement of Blacks from southern states of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi to locations including Chicago, California and Harlem for better opportunities. We touch on how Blacks landed in Harlem and the measures that were taken to secure real estate and living areas. Once there we explore the black artists such as Langston Hughes, creative collectives such as Niggeratti and more. Ultimately we look at the growth and impact along with the Great Depression and ultimate ending of this time period.

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“Merica the Brutaful”

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“Let America be America Again”

by Langston Hughes

Performed by Victor Andre Greene

“Prayer in Open D”

by Emmylou Harris

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“Seven Homecomings”

a meditation by Lama Rod Owens

led by Victor Andre Greene

“Compilation”

dance by Mona Sidhipunyapun 

“People of the World”

by Andre Henry

“What a Wonderful World”

& “The Color Purple”

performed by Crystal Petit

In this week's episode, we remember the life and work of American soul and jazz poet, musician, author, and spoken-word performer, Gil Scott-Heron. Included in this episode is a reading of Scott-Heron's piece "I Think I'll Call It Morning."

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The poet Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to look and listen closer so that we might uncover the small truths and surprises in life. His presence is irreverent and magnetic, as the high school students who joined us for this conversation experienced firsthand at the 2018 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. And now he’s won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Editor’s note: This interview discusses sexual violence and rape.

Jericho Brown is Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Creative Writing at Emory University, where he also directs the university’s creative writing program. His books of poetry are The New Testament, Please, and The Tradition, for which he won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

This show originally aired in June 2019.

The poet Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to look and listen closer so that we might uncover the small truths and surprises in life. His presence is irreverent and magnetic, as the high school students who joined us for this conversation experienced firsthand at the 2018 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. And now he’s won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Editor’s note: This interview discusses sexual violence and rape.

Jericho Brown is Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Creative Writing at Emory University, where he also directs the university’s creative writing program. His books of poetry are The New Testament, Please, and The Tradition, for which he won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.

This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Jericho Brown — Small Truths and Other Surprises." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.