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He was friends with many prominent figures of his day, including Wilbur and Orville Wright, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Although he died at the relatively young age of 33, he produced a large body of work, including this poem and the lyrics for In Dahomey (1903), the first musical written and performed entirely by African-Americans to appear on Broadway.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar is America’s first prominent African-American poet and was a child of ex-slaves. I chose this poem partly because I knew this work would be premiered in Berkeley, where he lived for many years. After spending most of World War II in Nazi-occupied Warsaw working for underground presses, he emegrated to America and taught at the University of California at Berkeley for more than twenty years. Milosz is a Nobel Prize-winning, Lithuanian and Polish-American poet, prose writer and translator, and is widely considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. PROGRAM NOTEĮternal Reflections consists of settings of the poems A Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz, Life’s Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Do not stand at my grave and weep by Mary E. Frye was a housewife and florist who became well-known because of her poem. Milosz is a Nobel Prize-winning Polish-American poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar is America's first prominent African-American poet, and Mary E. Eternal Reflections consists of settings of the poems A Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz, Life’s Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Do not stand at my grave and weep by Mary E.