[Fela
Sowande]
Department of Music
“Submitted
by Department of Music on April 9, 2012
The debut of the
Fela Sowande Singers, led by music department alum Oyebade Dosunmu,
will take place at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church on Tuesday night, April 10 at 8 p.m.
The singers will perform a concert of sacred music by Nigerian
composers. Along with Dosunmu, the concert will feature Richard
Teaster (director of Pitt’s Glee Club and vocal instructor) and Ayo
Oluranti (a doctoral candidate in composition and theory). The
program will also feature Sara Botkin (Soprano), Raquel Winnica Young
(Mezzo-Soprano), Ayo Oluranti (Organ), performing works by Ikoli
Harcourt-Whyte, T.K.E. Phillips, Fela Sowande, Laz Ekwueme, Ayo
Bankole, Seun Owoaje, Ayo Oluranti. Come out and enjoy an evening of
sacred Nigerian Choral music!”
[Prof.
Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com,
has written a manuscript on the life and works of Fela Sowande which
can be reached via the Fela Sowande page at AfriClassical.com:
http://africarts.org/Artists/Sowande.htm]
Comments by email:
Dear Bill, What a pleasant surprise. Thank you so much for the mention. This is much appreciated.
Oyebade Dosunmu, Ph.D
Comments by email:
Dear Bill, What a pleasant surprise. Thank you so much for the mention. This is much appreciated.
Oyebade Dosunmu, Ph.D
Bill, Encouraging
news indeed. It is certainly good to see Pittsburgh Uni doing this. I
expect that the legacy of Professor Akin Euba may have had some
influence here. I fondly recall attending the Symposium on African
Pianism quite a while back and the later FESAAM festivals which featured
the art songs and organ works of Sowande. The choral works deserve to
be performed widely and I am trying to get local interest in these. Regards Mike
[Michael S. Wright]
[Michael S. Wright]
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