Los Angeles Colored Chorus Program No. 14

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1937-uu-uu.

In this presentation of the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Music Project, Carlyle Scott "directs 68 voices", the Los Angeles Colored Chorus, in singing traditional choral music, African spirituals, and popular music.

The program begins with two traditional choral pieces:
Hallelujah Chorus (Handel's Messiah)
O Holy Virgin (Daniel Auber's Fra Diavolo)

Next, the announcer says a few words about the work of the WPA that benefits the nation's children:

"More than 50,000 children of working mothers are being cared for every day in 1,600 WPA nursery schools. These schools also give useful jobs to 6,000 unemployed teachers, dietitians, and nurses, as well as more than 7,000 relief workers engaged in the work of preparing hot school lunches on WPA projects from coast to coast."

The program continues with the popular tune "I Feel a Song Coming On," and concludes with songs from two theatrical productions Noah and John Henry:
Didn't it Rain?
My Lord What A Morning
Where Shall I Be?
John Henry

[Recorded c. 1937]

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 150495
Municipal archives id: LT4764