Nkeiru Okoye
John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD.com writes:
Changing
the game on the concert stage-please see world premiere of composer
Nkeiru Okoye "Black Bottom" by the Detroit Symphony conducted by Maestro
Thomas Wilkins. The composition for full orchestra and four African
American solo
voices was developed as from a nearly one-year-long study of a
photographic exhibit of Black Bottom Street (predominantly Black
neighborhood in Detroit demolished for redevelopment in the early
1960's). See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11xUjzA1Ljc
I
personally met and befriended Nkeiru Okoye in New York at the 2014
world premiere of her opera Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to
Freedom. More later
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