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100 1 $aTalalay, Kathryn M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no89011553
245 10 $aComposition in black and white :$bthe life of Philippa Schuyler /$cKathryn Talalay.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1995.
300 $axvi, 317 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aAble to read and write at the age of two and a half, a pianist at four, and a composer by five, Philippa was often compared to Mozart. During the 1930s and '40s she graced the pages of Time and Look magazines, the New York Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. Philippa grew up under the adoring and inquisitive eyes of an entire nation and soon became the role model and inspiration for a generation of African-American children.
520 8 $aBut as an adult she mysteriously dropped out of sight, leaving America to wonder what had happened to the "little Harlem genius." Suffering the double sting of racism and gender bias, Philippa had been rejected by the elite classical music milieu in the United States and forced to find an audience abroad, where she flourished as a world-class performer and composer. She traveled throughout South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, performing for kings, queens, and presidents.
520 8 $aBy then Philippa had added a second career as an author and foreign correspondent reporting on events around the globe - from Albert Schweitzer's leper colony in Lamberene to the turbulent Asian theater of the 1960s.
520 8 $aBut behind the scrim of adventure, glamour, and intrigue was an American outcast, a woman constantly searching for home and self. "I am a beauty - but I'm half colored...so I'm always destined to be an outsider," she wrote in her diary. In a last attempt to reclaim an identity, she began to "pass" as Caucasian. Adopting an Iberian-American heritage, she reinvented herself as Felipa Monterro, an ultra-right conservative who wrote and lectured for the John Birch Society.
520 8 $aHer experiment failed, as had her parents' dream of smashing America's racial barriers. But at the age of thirty five, Philippa finally began to embark on a racial catharsis: She was just beginning to find herself when on May 9, 1967, while on an unauthorized mission of mercy, her life was cut short in a helicopter crash over the waters of war-torn Vietnam.
600 10 $aSchuyler, Philippa,$d1932-1967.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88020802
650 0 $aPianists$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109349
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852 00 $bbar$hML417.S42$iT35 1995