Contemplating Live Performance

In theater, my music was put to dance drama two or so years ago. The experience was interesting. I see musical drama as the most potent form of disemmination in this era. It is, aggregationally as I am wont to say, what families will agree to enjoy together. Now the opportunity arises, as they will from time to time, for me to enhance the notion. I envision sitting in a jazz trio invoking the spirit of Harlem Renaissance, and three modern dancers on stage, inviting us to understand why Langston Hughes' poetry sounds like cheese while Robert Frost's sounds like poetry. It is because, as poetry is the nature of darkness--something the third world taught me--black men must deify it. Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, in this perspective, are the Karl Marx and Lenin of Black Poetry or "Juju."