Zenobia Powell Perry
Bill Doggett writes:
1619……The Underground Railroad and The Journey To Freedom
The World of Black stories in opera written and told by Black women composers.
Enter Zenobia Powell Perry’s opera Tawawa House
You are cordially invited to a moving concert performance on October 20th at 4:00 pm 130 Fisher Loop San Francisco, CA. 94129 Admission is free
Tawawa House is presented in a collaboration by
Jaygayle Music, The African American Composers Initiative and The Interfaith Center of The Presidio.
Tawawa House tells
the compelling story of a Central Ohio vacation venue for white slave
owners and their black mistresses which became transfigured into a stop
on The Underground Railroad .
Tawawa House is central to Ohio Underground Railroad history.
In
addition to it’s importance as safe harbor way station for slaves
escaping north to Freedom, in 1856, a full ten years before the
establishment of the post Civil War Freedman’s Bureau black land grant colleges,
Tawawa House became the foundation for Ohio’s first black university, Wilberforce University.
Enjoy this excerpt from the May 2014 performance by The Gallo Opera Company of Modesto, California
Publicity by Bill Doggett Productions
for Jaygayle Music and The African American Composers Initiative
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