James P. Johnson (1894-1955), known as the “Father of the the Stride Piano” and a noted jazz composer and performer, also turned his talents in the late 1930s to writing opera.
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As Allison and Rebecca Kestenbaum stood in front of a building in Greenwich Village on Wednesday, they were thinking about another set of sisters: their relatives Celia and Bess Eisenberg, who, as teenagers, worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Bess called in sick on the day that a horrific fire tore through the garment factory.
NEW YORK “Thud! Dead. Thud! Dead.” That’s how one onlooker later remembered the tragedy of New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, just off what is now Washington Square Park in lower Manhattan.
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