• 11/11/2024

‘Supper Time’: Irving Berlin’s Searing Song of Mourning

Wall Street Journal

Performed on Broadway by Ethel Waters 90 years ago, the song is an anti-lynching dirge whose lasting power lies in its understatement.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/supper-time-irving-berlins-searing-song-of-mourning-ethel-waters-22fae767