{"id":350,"date":"2017-05-19T15:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T22:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevezeltzer.com\/laborfest\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=350"},"modified":"2019-06-29T14:11:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:11:38","slug":"paul-robeson-a-portrait-in-story-song","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/event\/paul-robeson-a-portrait-in-story-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Robeson: A Portrait in Story &#038; Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <em><strong>The Rockin\u2019 Solidarity Labor Chorus<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<span class=\"schedule-body\">The Rockin\u2019 Solidarity Labor Chorus presents a musical biography of Paul Robeson, the great African American artist, athlete, and activist.<br \/>\nThe script is based on material gathered from primary sources by Alex Bagwell, a Chorus member and ILWU retiree, who interviewed many of Robeson\u2019s associates while they were still alive.<br \/>\nRobeson crossed paths with notable figures of his era, including W.E.B. DuBois, Lena Horne, and Harry Belafonte, but he also touched the lives of countless working men and women. He said, \u201cI have always put my faith and confidence in the working people in all countries and of all colors. I truly believe that they constitute the greatest force in the world for the advancement of all people.\u201d<br \/>\nThe concert will trace Robeson\u2019s journey from his youth in New Jersey to Rutgers University and then to Broadway, concert stages, and picket lines around the world. It also addresses Robeson\u2019s encounter with the House Un-American Activities Committee and the notorious Peekskill concert in 1949, at which racist thugs attacked the audience and the performers.<br \/>\nWith solos by Bagwell and others, the Chorus will sing many of the spirituals and folk songs from Robeson\u2019s repertoire, in new arrangements by Chorus director Pat Wynne.<br \/>\nContact: Pat Wynne (415) 648-3457<\/span>7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donation | <em>by The Rockin\u2019 Solidarity Labor Chorus<\/em> | <\/strong> The Rockin\u2019 Solidarity Labor Chorus presents a musical biography of Paul Robeson, the great African American artist, athlete, and activist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[83,32,39],"class_list":["post-350","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-2017-music-theater-art","tribe_events_cat-32","tribe_events_cat-music_theater_art","cat_2017-music-theater-art","cat_29","cat_music_theater_art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/350\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}