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'De Organizer' and 'The Dreamy Kid': Premiere recordings of James P. Johnson operas – People's World

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.

'De Organizer' and 'The Dreamy Kid': Premiere recordings of James P. Johnson operas – People's World

100 years after deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, its Jewish and Italian workers get a memorial

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.

After 112 years, there's a permanent, onsite Triangle Shirtwaist Fire memorial – People's World

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.

After 112 years, there's a permanent, onsite Triangle Shirtwaist Fire memorial – People's World