The University at Albany Performing Arts Center, operating under the
auspices of the College of Arts and Sciences and in conjunction the
Office of Multicultural Student Success, is pleased to present the Core Ensemble in a performance of Ain’t I a Woman! on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 7:30pm.
This chamber theatre work celebrates the life and times of four
powerful African American women: renowned novelist and anthropologist
Zora Neale Hurston, ex-slave and fiery abolitionist Sojourner Truth,
exuberant folk artist Clementine Hunter and fervent civil rights worker
Fannie Lou Hamer.
Chamber music theatre is a unique performance format developed by
the Core Ensemble featuring a marriage of theatrical narrative to
chamber music performance. Performers in Ain’t I a Woman!
include cellist Tahirah Whittington, pianist Hugh Hinton, percussionist
Michael Parola and actress Shinnerrie Jackson, who portrays multiple
characters while interacting with the onstage musical trio. The show is
written by Minneapolis native Kim Hines, a playwright, actor and stage
director who is currently an Associate Artist at Illusion Theater in
Minneapolis.The musical score is drawn from the heartfelt spirituals
and blues of the Deep South, the urban vitality of the Jazz Age and
contemporary concert music by African Americans.
Since 1993, the Core Ensemble has toured
its works in every region of the United States and internationally to
Australia, England, Russia, Ukraine and the British Virgin Islands.
Performances have taken place in such prestigious venues as the
Guggenheim Museum, Central Park SummerStage, the Chautauqua
Institution, the Daytona International Festival, the Fromm Series at
Harvard University and New Music Festivals in Massachusetts,
California, Ohio and Indiana.
Originally from Houston, Tahirah
Whittington has performed for audiences in the United States, Chile,
France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Bermuda, St. Kitts and Japan. She is a
founding member of The Young Eight, a touring string octet based in
Seattle, and a resident member of the Ritz Chamber Players based in
Jacksonville, FL. She is featured on Cedille Records' recording of
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's unaccompanied cello work, "Lamentations: a
Black Folk Song Suite," for which she received a Grammy nomination. [Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a complete Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaldeLerma.com]
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