Marti Newland, PhD, Soprano and Core Lecturer for Music Humanities
Dominique-René de Lerma,
forwards this release from Marti Newland, PhD, of Columbia University in New York:
"Concert Spirituals and the Black Soprano" Recital and Panel Discussion
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 7:00 PM
St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University
You are warmly invited to this special event--one that connects the long arc of my work as a scholar, pedagogue and performer.
"Concert
Spirituals and the Black Soprano" features Columbia scholars and
musicians as well as Dr. Paul T. Kwami, director of the Fisk Jubilee
Singers.
This
is a Columbia Music Performance Program event in conjunction with the
Core Curriculum, co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in African
American Studies, the Center for Ethnomusicology, and the Institute for
Religion, Culture and Public Life.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 7:00PM
Columbia University, St. Paul's Chapel: 1160 Amsterdam Avenue - New York, NY
Free admission and open to the public
Through a recital and panel discussion, "Concert Spirituals and the Black Soprano" reconsiders
the role of singing concert spirituals among black sopranos in relation
to political resistance, musical virtuosity and the sacred. The
particularity of performing this body of art songs merges the
experiences of enslaved Africans in the United States with the
expressive and political moves of western classical arrangers and
musicians. The performances and recordings of black sopranos' concert
spiritual singing signifies the labor of the feminine and the role of
the black sacred experience in the enduring legacy of concert
spirituals. The event opens with a performance of selected concert
spiritual repertoire popularized among twentieth century black sopranos,
immediately followed by a panel discussion in conjunction with the
Columbia College Core Curriculum course Music Humanities.
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Whitney Slaten, Saxophonist and PhD Candidate Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Kevin Fellezs, Assistant Professor of Music and African-American Studies
Office of the Core Curriculum
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Thank you both for this support! With deep appreciation and respect, Marti [Marti Newland]
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