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After only one verified complete performance at Carnegie Hall in May 1941, "De Organizer," the opera by James P. Johnson and Langston Hughes, vanished. The opera was thought to be totally lost until 1997 when the late James Dapogny, a professor at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theat

John T. von Stade, the longest-serving president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, died Nov. 25 after a long battle with cancer. He was 83.