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Noted tenor and composer Roland Hayes (right) performed at Portland City Hall Auditorium on April 26, 1937, several days before his transatlantic trip to attend the coronation of George VI and Elizabeth. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church invited Hayes to sing in Portland; the singer donated nearly all the profits to help the Munjoy Hill Church. The Rev. Dr. John C. Schroeder (left) was the general chairman of the arrangement for the concert.
Hayes performed, with the accompaniment of Percival Parham, "Alma Del Core" by Antonio Caldera, "When I am Laid in Earth" by Purcell as well as songs by Handel, Beethoven, Schubert (Hayes sang in German), as well as a vocal setting to Langston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son."
About This Item
- Title: Tenor Roland Hayes and Reverend John C. Schroeder shaking hands, Portland, 1937
- Creation Date: 1937-04-26
- Subject Date: 1937-04-26
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass negative
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.3776.1
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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- African American composers
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church (Portland, Me.)
- Hayes, Roland, 1887-1977
- Merrill Auditorium (Portland, Me.)
- Opera--20th century
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Tenor Roland Hayes and Reverend John C. Schroeder pose for portrait, Portland, 1937
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