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Hall Johnson (1888–1970) began his musical life as a professional violinist
and violist, and played in James Reese Europe’s orchestra as well as in Will Marion Cook’s Syncopated Orchestra. He is perhaps better known today as an arranger and choral conductor. His Hall Johnson Chorus was featured in over thirty feature-length films, including “The Green Pastures” of 1930. In the convict/work song “On the Dusty Road” we encounter the effective combination of Langston Hughes’ poetry, Toy Harper’s melody, and Hall Johnson’s evocative arrangement, which couples bluestinged
harmonies with sounds of sprinkling water and images of exploding TNT.

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New World Records Brooklyn, New York

Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., which records under the label New World Records, was founded in 1975.

We are dedicated to the documentation of American music that is largely ignored by the commercial recording companies.

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