This is FRESH AIR. Bass-baritone Paul Robeson was one of the most popular figures of the 20th century, and also one of the most controversial. He died in 1976 at the age of 77, leaving a huge imprint ...
Bass-baritone Davóne Tines has built a reputation for doing things his way on the concert stage. The out 37-year-old Harvard and Juilliard graduate was given complete instruction on the how-to's of ...
Singing or acting on stage and film, playing football and advocating for civil rights made Paul Robeson a global star. He was one of the most famous Americans in the 1930s and 1940s, but McCarthyism ...