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Celebrating Hazel Scott: Pianist, Singer, Actress and Activist

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  • Monograph
  • Moving Image

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Virginia Johnson, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Karen Chilton, Janet McKinney, Adam Clayton Powell III.

Summary

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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Celebrating Hazel Scott: Pianist, Singer, Actress and Activist

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Recorded on 2023-06-01.

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:18:03.823686+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24123706

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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