Milton Williams

Duff Anderson, un jeune Noir, gagne sa vie en travaillant dans les chemins de fer. Un jour, il rencontre Josie, la fille d’un prêtre Noir, passionnée par son métier d’institutrice. Duff et Josie s’éprennent l’un de l’autre et décident de se marier. Ils s’installent en ville mais Duff se rebelle rapidement car il semble avoir quelques difficultés à vivre entouré de Blancs…

La chanteuse de boîte de nuit Nelle Hill a de nombreux prétendants, un condamné évadé, un pianiste et un journaliste. L'un est tué. Avec des courts métrages musicaux tels que «Murder in Swingtime», «Black and Tan Fantasy», «Symphony in Black» et «Ain’t Misbehaving».

A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime.

Timeless traditions and contemporary anxieties clash musically and theatrically in Leonard Bernstein's powerful but rather neglected "Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers," The dancers are omitted in this semi-staged performance, produced for the Vatican's Jubilee 2000 celebration, but the show's eclectic musical brilliance, its adept mingling and clash of musical styles, its contrasts of hope and anxiety, faith and unbelief, ancient serenity and modern dissatisfaction are all brilliantly conveyed. More than 30 years after its premiere, for the opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Mass still has the impact of this morning's newspaper headlines.