Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953)
is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features
a comprehensive Works Lists by
Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma,
http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com.
is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features
a comprehensive Works Lists by
Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma,
http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com.
Florence B. Price:
Concerto in One Movement and Symphony in E Minor [Symphony No. 1]
Recorded Music of the African Diaspora, Vol. 3
CBMR/Albany Records TROY1295 (2011)
The Chicago Sinfonietta announces the opening of its 2013-14 Season:
Chicago Sinfonietta
presents daring program blending live Hip-Hop and Orchestral Classics in “eMotion”
Special Guest Performers: FootworKINGz and Kuumba Lynx
Symphony Center, Chicago – September 14
Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville – September 15
CHICAGO (August 13, 2013) – The Chicago Sinfonietta opens its 2013-14 season with “eMotion,” a concert continuing Music Director Mei-Ann Chen’s
award-winning experimental programming style, moving toward the
creation of a new breed of collaborative performance experiences. The
“eMotion” concert features music inspired by dance, including a World Premiere
arrangement commissioned by the Sinfonietta. The Sinfonietta performs
“eMotion” twice, once in its downtown Chicago home venue of Symphony
Center, 220 S. Michigan Avenue, Saturday, September 14 at 8 pm and again in the western suburbs at Wentz Concert Hall of North Central College, 171 E. Chicago Avenue, Naperville, Sunday, September 15 at 4 pm.
The urban dance culture is showcased in the newly commissioned “Orchestral Dance Mix” arrangement by Sam Shoup that mixes classical masterworks and explosive footwork from Chicago hip-hop troupes FootworKINGz and Kuumba Lynx. Shoup’s new suite seamlessly blends five scenes from Peter llyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake,
each made to flow together instead of the traditionally separate
movements, with Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1, Movements 3 and 4.
Price, a pioneering African-American composer who lived in Chicago from
1927 until her death in 1953, also composed The Oak, which the
Sinfonietta presented in its 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute
concert. The professional dancers of FootworKINGz and the junior
dancers of Kuumba Lynx perform work created collaboratively between the
two ensembles. FootworKINGz is led by Artistic Director Charles “King
Charles” Parks, choreographer/dancer Jaron “Prince Jron” Boyd and
Trevell “Tee-Jay” Johnson. Jacinda Bullie and Jaquanda Villegas are
Co-Creative Directors and Co-Executive Directors of Kuumba Lynx.
Lively works from Russian masters Aram Khachaturian
and Sergei Rachmaninoff round out a concert that shows how music
inspires movement of all kinds, from the street to the concert hall.
The Sinfonietta performs Khachaturian’s instantly recognizable Sabre Dance and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, an orchestral suite in three movements.
Tickets
Single
tickets range from $26-$50 for concerts at Symphony Center and $40-$50
for concerts at Wentz Concert Hall, with special $10 pricing available
for students at both concerts. Tickets can be purchased by calling the
Chicago Sinfonietta at 312-236-3681 ext. 2 or online at www.chicagosinfonietta.org.
About the Artists
FootworKINGz was
founded in 2007 by Leida “Lady Sol” Villegas as a professional dance
ensemble with a mission to attract global recognition to Chicago’s
unique style of footwork. Footworkin’ is an extremely energized, lower
body movement that evolved as a response to House and Juke (a highly
sped up House sound up to 160bpm) music. FootworKINGz’s King Charles
and Prince Jron toured on Madonna’s “Sticky & Sweet” World Tour
(2008-2009). Both are featured in Madonna’s music video “Celebration.”
FootworKINGz members have also appeared as a Top 20 act on NBC’s
“America’s Got Talent” Season 4, Ellen Degeneres’ Really Big Show ‘07
for TBS, VH-1 Hip Hop Honors ’07 with Missy Elliott, and MTV’s “My Block
Chicago.”
In
response to the 1996 Chicago Public School system arts funding cuts,
Jaquanda Villegas, Jacinda Bullie and Leyda Garcia founded the
not-for-profit arts and education organization Kuumba Lynx. The
three young women came together under the belief that youth have a power
in “edutainment” (education, arts and entertainment). Their goal was
to utilize hip-hop arts and culture to increase social consciousness,
inner peace, creativity and universal freedom for youth. They created
programs that utilize the cultural and artistic aesthetics of urban
hip-hop to reshape and empower Chicago’s communities. Today, Kuumba
Lynx nurtures participants’ discovery of their own artistic voice,
fosters self confidence and helps expand their world view, leaving them
inspired to continue using art as a means of personal and social
expression and community activism.
Sam Shoup
has over 30 years of experience writing, producing, recording and
performing commercial music in virtually every style category. Born and
raised in Memphis, TN, he is the son of bandleader Don Reid and
vocalist Gwen Parke. After starting his own company, SamJamm
Productions in 1990, Sam began specializing in Orchestral and Big Band
arranging. He is currently a staff arranger for The National Symphony
Orchestra at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., as well as The New
York Pops Orchestra and The Memphis Symphony Orchestra. He was Music
Director for the Finis Henderson show from 2000 to 2003 and won St.
Johns University's "Fight Song" competition in 2006. He is a two-time
winner of NARAS's Premier Bassist award. He is a member of the music
faculty at The University of Memphis and at Southwest Tennessee
Community College. In addition to writing and arranging, Shoup plays
upright and electric bass, trumpet and piano.
For 25 years, the Chicago Sinfonietta
has pushed artistic and social boundaries to provide an alternative way
of hearing, seeing and thinking about a symphony orchestra. Each
concert experience fuses inventive new works from a diverse array of
voices with classical masterworks to entertain, transform and inspire. The Sinfonietta has a proud history of having enriched the cultural, educational and social quality of life in Chicago. Under the guidance of Founding Music
Director Paul Freeman, the orchestra has performed at the highest
artistic level since 1987. Mei-Ann Chen succeeded Paul Freeman as the
Chicago Sinfonietta’s Music Director beginning with the 2011-12 season.
The Chicago Sinfonietta musicians truly represent the city’s rich
cultural landscape and continue to fulfill the orchestra’s mission of Musical Excellence through Diversity™.
In
2012 the Sinfonietta was honored with two national awards for
excellence from the League of American Orchestras, one for adventurous
programming and one recognizing Maestro Chen with the Helen M. Thompson
Award for an Emerging Music Director.
The
Chicago Sinfonietta thanks its season sponsors including BP,
Naperville’s SECA fund, the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicaqo Magazine,
Southwest Airlines, the Hotel Arista, the Fairmont Hotel, and WBEZ 91.5
FM. Event sponsors include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois and the
Illinois Arts Council.
Complete Program Information
Saturday, September 14 at 8 pm, Symphony Center, Chicago
Sunday, September 15 at 4 pm, Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
FootworKINGz and Kuumba Lynx, dancers
“Orchestra Dance Mix” (arr. Sam Shoup)
TCHAIKOVSKY Selections from Swan Lake Suite
PRICE Symphony No. 1, Mov. 3 & 4
KHACHATURIAN Sabre Dance
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Tickets: $40–$50 (Wentz Concert Hall); $26–$50 (Symphony Center
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