Celebrating Hazel Scott: Pianist, Singer, Actress and Activist

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This special evening saluted a groundbreaking Black artist whose legacy continues to resonate today. Brilliant, glamorous and fluent in seven languages, Hazel Scott was a prodigiously talented jazz and classical pianist, a true media star who enjoyed fame on the concert stage, in film and in television in the 1940s and '50s. Defying segregation and breaking racial barriers as a performer, she would become an influential Civil Rights activist whose courageous testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities damaged a remarkable career. Enjoy these excerpts from a special event created in cooperation with Washington Performing Arts and Dance Theatre of Harlem. The original event included a film about the creation of "Sounds of Hazel," as well as an excerpt from the ballet co-commissioned by Washington Performing Arts. The artist's biographer, Karen Chilton, moderated a panel discussion bringing together Dance Theatre of Harlem's Artistic Director Virginia Johnson, choreographer Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Hazel Scott's son Adam Clayton Powell III, and Janet McKinney, an archivist at the Library of Congress.

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English

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United States

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