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Black theater, U.S.A. : forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974 / James V. Hatch, editor ; Ted Shine, consultant.

Text

New York : Free Press, [1974]

1974-1974

3 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc 812.08-H (Hatch, J. Black theater, U.S.A.)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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FormatTextCall numberSc 812.08-H (Hatch, J. Black theater, U.S.A.)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberJFF 75-1025Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Mayakowsky's Cuban poems / [translated] by Langston Hughes [and Lyda Filotova].

Text

[1933]

1933

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc Rare 891.7-M (Mayakovsky, V. Mayakowsky's Cuban poems)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

[Songs / composed by Marjorie Arden].

Notated music

[19--].

1900-1999

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberSc Scores ArdenItem locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Ricky Ian Gordon [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Moving image

2002.

2002-428

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZIDVD 5-1190Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

Around New York. André Solomon-Glover [sound recording]

Audio

June 5, 1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LDC 43130 [CD]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

Five art songs : medium-high voice and piano / Florence B. Price ; [texts by] L. Hughes, P.L. Dunbar, M.F. Hoisington, J.J. Davis ; edited by Rae Linda Brown.

Notated music

[United States] : Estate of Florence Price, [2011]

2011-2011

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNF 15-105Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Art by African-American artists : selections from the 20th century : a resource for educators / Metropolitan Museum of Art ; [written by Lisa Gail Collins].

Text

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2003.

2003

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 12-164 Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberSc CD-1137Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Harlem Renaissance : four novels of the 1930s / Rafia Zafar, editor.

Text

New York : Library of America, c2011.

2011

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 11-1792Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Around New York : radio broadcast [sound recording] : John Musto, Amy Burton and Chris Pedro Trakas.

Audio

1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LDC 52281Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

Unsung Weill: songs cut from Broadway musicals and Hollywood films [videorecording] / Presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ; producer, Alan J. Pally.

Moving image

New York, 2002.

2002

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberNCOV 3807Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - TOFT

Theater songs by Kurt Weill and others : with winners of the 2001 Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers / presented by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center ; Alan J. Pally, producer.

Moving image

2001.

2001

1 item

Available online

NYPL Digital Collections
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall number*LVH 2638Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Lost & found : the CUNY poetics document initiative. Series 5, Spring 2015 / general editor, Ammiel Alcalay.

Text

[New York, N.Y.] : The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2015.

2015

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 15-329Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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FormatTextCall numberBerg Coll CUNY P64 2015Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
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Let America be America again : for narrator and orchestra : based on the poem by Langston Hughes (2012) / Gwyneth Walker.

Notated music

Maryland Heights, MO : Lauren Keiser Music Publishing, [2012]

2012-2012

1 item

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FormatNotated musicCall numberJNF 15-145Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Let us remember : chorus and orchestra / David Amram ; text by Langston Hughes.

Notated music

New York : Edition Peters, [2015?]

2015-1966

1 item

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FormatNotated musicCall numberJNH 16-12Item locationOffsite
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I dream a world : SATB chorus and string orchestra or piano four-hands / David Conte.

Notated music

Boston : E.C. Schirmer Music Company, Inc., [2017]

2017-2017

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNF 18-112Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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The sweet flypaper of life / photographs by Roy DeCarava ; story by Langston Hughes.

Text

New York : First Print Press, Inc. ; 2018.

2018-2018

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc C 19-35Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Writers.

Mixed material

1899-1942.

1899-1942

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc Micro R-707 r. 18: v. 7, Theatre- WritersItem locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 958 (Writers)Item locationOffsite

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American voices.

Audio

Sonoma, CA : Delos Productions, [2014]

2014-2012

1 resource

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee papers.

Mixed material

1932-2015.

1932-2015

179 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 305 box 179Item locationOffsite
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 305 box 178Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 305 box 177Item locationOffsite
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I've known rivers : tenor and piano / Gwyneth Walker ; poem by Langston Hughes.

Notated music

[St. Louis, Missouri] : E.C. Schirmer Music Company, [2019]

2019-2019

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNG 19-301Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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African-American classics / edited by Tom Pomplun and Lance Tooks.

Text

Mount Horeb, Wis. : Eureka ; London : Diamond [distributor], [2011]

2011

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 18-85Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Ballad of the Brown King & selected songs / Margaret Bonds.

Audio

Surrey, UK : Avie Records, [2019]

2019-2018

1 resource

Let America be America again : for soprano and string quartet / Carlos Simon.

Notated music

[Brooklyn] : CSJr. Music, [2020]

2020-2017

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNG 21-11Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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To paradise for onions : songs and chamber works of Edith Hemenway.

Audio

[The Netherlands] : Etcetera, [2018]

2018-2018

1 resource

Weary blues : for baritone and orchestra : 1979 / Dorothy Rudd Moore ; poem by Langston Hughes.

Notated music

New York, NY : American Composers Alliance Inc., [2019]

2019-1979

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNH 21-3Item locationOffsite

From the dark tower : for voice, cello, and piano : 1972 / Dorothy Rudd Moore.

Notated music

New York, NY : American Composers Alliance Inc., 2019.

2019-1981

1 item

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FormatNotated musicCall numberJNG 21-67Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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In celebration : for mixed chorus and piano : 1977 / Dorothy Rudd Moore ; on texts by Langston Hughes.

Notated music

[New York, NY] : American Composers Alliance, 2016.

2016-1977

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNG 21-86Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Prayer : from Nightsongs : in high, medium, and low key ranges : 1996 / H. Leslie Adams ; text by Langston Hughes.

Notated music

New York, NY : American Composers Alliance Inc., 2019.

2019-1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberMusic-Am. (Sheet) 21-101Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

From the dark tower : for mezzo-soprano and orchestra / by Dorothy Rudd Moore.

Notated music

New York, NY : American Composers Alliance Inc., 2020.

2020-1972

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNH 21-31Item locationOffsite

Prayer (Gather up) : for string quartet and high voice / music, Carlos Simon ; libretto, Langston Hughes.

Notated music

[United States] : CSJr. Music, 2021.

2021-2018

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJMG 22-568Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Gospel cha-cha : for baritone solo, SATB chorus (divisi) and orchestra / Elena Ruehr.

Notated music

Boston, Massachusetts : ECS Publishing : E.C. Schirmer Music Company, [2011?]

2011-2004

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJMG 23-764Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Langston dreams / music by Rosephanye Powell ; text by Langston Hughes.

Notated music

[Glendale, CA] : Gentry Publications, [2022]

2022-2022

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJMG 23-484Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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The Negro speaks of rivers / words by Langston Hughes ; music by Margaret Bonds.

Notated music

New York, N.Y. : Handy Bros. Music, [1942]

1942

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberMusic (Sheet) 20-39Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

At the feet of Jesus : song in the style of a Negro spiritual / poem by Langston Hughes ; melody by Toy Harper ; arranged by Hall Johnson.

Notated music

New York : Carl Fischer, [1947]

1947

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberMusic (Sheet) 20-44Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

An anthology of African and African diaspora songs / Louise Toppin, editor ; Scott Piper, associate editor.

Notated music

[Ann Arbor, MI] : [Videmus], [2021]

2021

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberSc F 24-158Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatNotated musicCall numberJMF 23-432Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Rediscovering Margaret Bonds : art songs, spirituals, musical theater and popular songs / Louise Toppin, editor.

Notated music

[Ann Arbor, MI] : [Videmus], [2021]

2021-2021

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberSc F 24-157 Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatNotated musicCall numberJMG 23-1551Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Simply heavenly / book and lyrics by Langston Hughes ; music and orchestration by David Martin.

Audio

[New York, N.Y.] : Columbia Masterworks, [1957]

1957

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 33047Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

Poems.

Audio

New York : Folkways Records, [1952]

1952

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LRXS 70Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

De Organizer ; The dreamy kid (excerpts) / James P. Johnson.

Audio

[Place of publication not identified] : Naxos Regular CD (NRE), [2023]

2023-2023

1 resource

America will be! : two soprano soli, SATB chorus (divisi) unaccompanied / Joel Thompson.

Notated music

[St. Louis, Missouri] : Galaxy Music Corporation, [2019]

2019-2019

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJMF 24-186Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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