This podcast options Raymond Bisha in dialog with conductor Kenneth Kiesler in regards to the rediscovery, rescue and reconstruction of two operas by James P. Johnson (1894–1955). Famend as an influential jazz pianist however with a decrease profile as a composer of opera, it was Johnson’s specific hope that two of his brief stage works, written within the late Nineteen Thirties, would at some point type a double-bill. Which they did, however not till 2006, after a protracted swathe of tender loving care.
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