Performance of Just come from the fountain (Hall Johnson)
Dominique-René de Lerma,
forwards this YouTube video from Marti Newland, soprano, in which she and keyboardist Magdalena Stern-Baczewska rehearse their performance of Just come from the fountain (2:14) by Hall Johnson for tomorrow.
"Concert Spirituals and the Black Soprano" Recital and Panel Discussion
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TOMORROW: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 7:00 PM
St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University
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"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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PARTICIPANTS
Marti Newland, PhD, Soprano and Core Lecturer for Music Humanities
Magdalena Stern Baczewska, Pianist and Director of Columbia's Music Performance Program
Dr. Paul T. Kwami, Keyboardist and Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Whitney Slaten, Saxophonist and PhD Candidate Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Kevin Fellezs, Moderator and Assistant Professor of Music and African-American Studies
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Respondent and William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University Department of Music
Center of Ethnomusicology Institute of Research in African-American Studies Institute of Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Office of the Core Curriculum
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Many thanks to you both! [Marti Newland} |
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