Ile Ife House of Love (1973 16mm 30 min)
by Ray Hartung

ADF, USIA, Chicago TV w/ Bobby Artist & Lisa Williams - seek information

Orpheus at Greaterford Prison (1973? 16mm 90 min)
seek any material or information
Orpheus @ Greaterford Prison, "Assignment" program on KPVI television
John Miller, producer - seek Jon Miller
also see Orpheus @ Phila Museum of Art, June 5, 1983

Arthur Hall and Ile-Ife Museum of Afro-American Art and Culture are mentioned in Elsa Honig Fine's The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, page 171). Apparent source for this information is Victoria Donohoe's "Gallery Tour," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28, 1972, p. 20. [ref: Tom Weissinger, John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, Cornell University, 310 Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY 14850-2599]

1973 chronology

JN AHAADE Feb 10, 1973 @ Inglis House, Phila Home for the Incurable [program]

JN "Phila Folk Song Society" April 3, 1973
@ Museum of Phila Civic Center w/ Ile Ife Singers

JN, ER Orpheus world premiere, May 13-14, 19-20 (no year = 1973) Shubert Theatre
AH "Hall Dancers Unveil Style In 'Orpheus'" Phila Inquirer, May 11, 1973 [p.B-1]

JN AHAADE, Summer evenings in Rittenhouse Square, June 4, 1973

ER poster Orpheus, return engagement, June 19 - July 1 (no year [1973])
Schubert Theater, 250 S Broad


JN "New Outlooks at Ile Ife: It's the Conga Drum, not booze & Junk" Sunday Bulletin 10/21/73, p.1

JN Pan-Afrikan Reception, Nov 23, 1973 Waldorf Astoria, Starlight Ballroom, AH Dancers
w/ Imamu Amiri Baraka &c [Congress of Afrikan People, Newark NJ]

JN Obatala & the Philadelphia Orchestra, Dec 12, 1973, Academy of Music
[program]

Additional material sought

Chronological Outline

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