Jorge Amado papers, 1970-1987 (bulk 1970-1971)
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Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
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Jorge Amado, Brazil's all-time best-selling author, became a well-loved national and much-acclaimed international novelist. He published novels, short stories, and nonfiction, including travel and memoir. Amado is ranked by some critics as Brazil's greatest twentieth-century novelist. His depictions of the social, political, and cultural aspects of Brazil's northwestern Bahia region have been translated into as many as fifty languages. From the description of Jorge Amado papers, 1970...
Pennsylvania State University. Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies
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In 1976, the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies sponsored the production of the original opera "Be glad then, America" to commemorate America's bicentennial. The opera incorporated a chorus of two hundred Penn State choir students, professional opera singers from the Metropolitan Opera, popular folk singer Odetta, and Penn State's ROTC students as soldiers. The production was planned by Stanley Weintraub and William Allison, the Institute's Director and Associate Director at that time...
