Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917-1995), African American Composer, Conductor and Professor, is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a
Works
List and a Bibliography by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma,
www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.comSergio A. Mims of WHPK-FM Chicago sends this release:
EVENT: From Emancipation to the Great Migration
DATE/TIME: TUESDAY, JANUARY 8th, 2013 at 7PM
TICKETS: $10
VENUE: The Greene Space, 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY (corner of Varick Street)
Commemorate
the Emancipation Proclamation's 150th anniversary through conversation
and performance. Moderated by award-winning writer Carl Hancock Rux.
From Emancipation to the Great Migration
takes a look at the Emancipation Proclamation within the unsettled,
turbulent contexts of the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow Era
and the Great Migration. Panelists include Pulitzer Prize-winning
author, Isabel Wilkerson (The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration); Dr. Khalil Muhammad (Director of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture); and Jim Downs (Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction)
The event will also feature a performance by, and discussion with, internationally-renowned singer Kevin Maynor. He'll perform an excerpt from Ulysses Kay’s final opera "Frederick Douglass" and a noted actor reading from The Warmth of Other Suns, in partnership with Selected Shorts on WNYC 93.9FM.
From Emancipation to the Great Migration will also air as a special in February 2013 on WNYC 93.9FM.
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