16th October 1943: American tenor Roland Hayes (1887 - 1976), one of the first black singers on stage during the twenties, singing at an Allied Forces concert organized by the Daily Express and held ...

Why has history relegated the illustrious life of singer Roland Hayes to the shadows? In the 1920s, he was one of the highest paid male recitalists in the world. The son of former slaves, his talents ...

A renowned tenor is coming to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to perform a one-person show on the stage that bears the name of the musician who first presented the music. Jackson Caesar ...

Daniel Beaty's West Coast premiere revives the lost-to-history account of Roland Hayes, a son of former slaves and the first internationally lauded African-American classical singer. Raised in the ...

With “Breath and Imagination,” the new Front Porch Arts Collective hits the stage with the strength of a whole house, its firm, heartfelt foundations classical art song and the black church. Daniel ...

Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson. While Robeson and Anderson are probably names that many Americans can identify. Hayes probably is not. Robeson was a football player, political, and civil ...

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“How will I ever have a career if I don’t sound like everyone else?” doubts young tenor Roland Hayes at a supremely ironic point in “Breath and Imagination,” Daniel Beaty’s musical biography that ...

Roland Hayes was a giant in American music, yet here in the town where he lived there was no permanent memorial to honor him – until last weekend. “The town had forgotten Roland Hayes. Roland Hayes is ...