I offer no excuse for self-plagiarism in using the words “charisma,” “presence,” and “vocal instrument” from the last time I heard Willard White (at the King's Lynn Festival some three years ago), for ...

On June 12, 1956, one of America’s best-known entertainers, Paul Leroy Robeson, sat facing the Hon. Francis E. Walter. Walter was a leading Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, while the resume ...

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Willard White's Tribute to Paul Robeson, Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds, February 17 Although Sir Willard White is Jamaican and Paul Robeson, an American there are many similarities in their lives ...

Paul Robeson was a great singer and a patriot. He did not separate the two, nor did Willard White in his ardent, animating Royce Hall tribute Thursday night to an American performer who not only moved ...

A special tribute concert to cultural and political figure Paul Robeson was held to mark the official opening of the newly refurbished William Aston Hall in Wrexham on Friday. International ...

"Few singers could assume the Robeson character better than White, and even fewer could evoke the sound of his rich and apparently bottomless voice." The Times (London) The Paul Robeson Legacy is a ...

THE world-renowned bass baritone Willard White returned to PerthConcert Hall for a personal tribute to one of America’s legendary singers, Paul Robeson. The concert, Robeson Re-explored, featured many ...

"A tragedy of racial conflict" was how Paul Robeson summed up Othello as he rehearsed the play in London. The only black actor previously to have attempted it was Ira Aldridge. In 1825, the ...

Charisma. Presence. Call it what you will, in the richness of his voice, whether a few spoken words or a well-crafted song passage, bass-baritone Willard White has the ability given to few to transfix ...