Rhiannon Giddens
Lara Downes
Symphony Hall
Boston, MA
Friday, May 24, 2019, 8 PM
Rhiannon Giddens curates this dynamic
concert to rediscover the great Black composers who have been hiding in
plain sight in every genre of symphonic music. From Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor whose choral music once rivaled Handel’s Messiah to
Billy Strayhorn, the genius behind Duke Ellington who wrote “Take the
A-Train” and “Day Dream,” and Eubie Blake, composer of the
groundbreaking Broadway musical Shuffle Along. We’ll also remember the
ladies with Florence Price, the first black woman to have her symphony
performed by a major orchestra, and Hazel Scott, the jazz and piano
prodigy who became a Hollywood, Broadway and television star. Rhiannon
will be joined by collaborators vocalist Darius DeHass (Broadway’s Shuffle Along) and pianist Lara Downes, whose playing has been described as “luscious, moody and dreamy” by the New York Times.
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