snip....
>>
>>The music of the United States has been created from many people of the world community.
>
>Yes, I understand that there is a great variety of music. I particularly enjoy "negro spirituals" (we have a disk by Paul Robeson, for instance).

I just had to jump in here. Paul Robeson will always be, in my own humble opinion, the posessor of the finest singing voice ever given to a human being to hold in trust.

I met him when I was a child here in Toronto as part of a group of maybe 30 (my memory may be a bit fuzzy about the numbers) or so kids that he came and sang for and talked to, and I remember being immensly impressed - not to mention simply over-awed by his size.

I have a few of his records, and every time I listen to one, I am once again struck by how much his voice reminds me of a Hammond Organ when he holds a low note.

Alan