Thomas Wilkins, Omaha Symphony Conductor
KIOS 91.5
The Omaha Symphony and Omaha Central High School are offering a free community concert tonight at 7:00.
The program is called Living Voices: A Legacy of Hope, An Affirmation of Promise and is a celebration of Black History Month.
Thomas
Wilkins, Conductor of the Omaha Symphony, says one of the things they
wanted to do with the program is demonstrate the involvement black
people have had with classical music.
Wilkins says the program celebrates the diversity of African-American culture.
"We
have music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor who was a black British composer
of the 19th century. He was very well respected and a lot of the time
sounds a lot like Dvorak, another favorite composer of mine. Duke
Ellington wrote a lot of orchestral music and not a lot of people know
that because we sort of know him as the Duke, you know, the king of big
band jazz.”
Wilkins says the concert serves as an opportunity to remember the significance of those who have come before.
The
Living Voices Concert takes place tonight at 7:00 at Central High
School. Orchestra students, theatre students and choral students will
perform with the symphony.
There is no charge to attend and doors open at 6:30.
[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) and Duke Ellington (1899-1974) are featured at AfriClassical.com, with
a
comprehensive Works List and a Bibliography for Coleridge-Taylor by Prof. Dominique-René
de Lerma, www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com.
We
are collaborating with the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation of the
U.K., www.SCTF.org.uk]
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