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f “The Ordering of V-rrr”Friday night at Music Hall the American Negro may beaaid to have come into his own. musically sneaking. The oeca-Mon was the first performance anywhere of 'The Ordering of Moses,** an oratorio by Dr. Robert Nathaniel Dett. In choosing this as the representative American work for the 1037 May Festival, Conductor Ooosaens paid deserved honor to a musical leader of a musically gifted race. Dr, Dett, who was formerly director of music at Hampton Institute, is a distinguished composer. He IS also a man with deep Interest and pride in his people. The work to which he devoted ten years uses the familiar story of the Exodus as a framework on which Is woven a time pattern depleting the spiritual yearning, the sorrows and joys that have attended the rise of his people up from bondage, A Negro folk text, based upon the familiar scriptural story, supplies the Words. Negro spirituals were the inspiration for some of the melodies of a work both beautiful and strangely moving. ' ■I ‘The Ordering of Moses** Is said to be the most impressive I NOl^ contribution 40music. Instead of searching far afield for a subject. Dr, Dett has looked into the heart of his people H composed what he mm there. As a result he has added fnrifttng important to culture.N I
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Cincinnati Times Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, May 08, 1937
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