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The People Could Fly
The Ensemble Du Monde and Music Director, Marlon Daniel, will perform works by composers of African descent from the time of Mozart till today. The concert features the New York premiere of Trevor Weston’s evocative and newly revised work for violin, narrator and chamber orchestra, The People Could Fly based on African American folklore.
Trevor’s inspiration for this new work was the African American folktale, “The People Could Fly”. He chose this subject matter for several reasons: the imagery of enslaved Africans escaping plantations in the US, the ideals of hope in a desperate and deplorable situation, the transcendence of oppression and the fantastical of the idea of Black people having the magical ability to fly back to Africa (some believed a metaphor for the underground railroad).
The first documented version of this folktale is connected to the Gullah people, African Americans living in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Trevor’s piece uses performance practices from Gullah Spirituals in his work. The syncopated foot stamping and clapping pattern in Gullah Spirituals gave Trevor the impression of humans trying to fly. For this reason, Gullah performance practices are used by the string orchestra (players to stamp their feet while playing their instruments).
Dynamic young violinist Josh Henderson, who performed the original world premiere of the work and the incomparable Chapman Roberts, of Broadway fame and creator of Black Stars of the Great White Way, will highlight this performance.
Other works on the program include the Symphonie in G Major, Op.11, No. 1 by Afro-Caribbean classical period composer Joseph Bologne (1745 –1799), Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s virtuosic Four Novellettes, Op. 52 and William Grant Still’s poetic tone poem, Mother and Child.
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2/8/2014 07:30 PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music - Mary Flager Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street New York NY us
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Phone:Ben Gomez (212) 866-2958
Email:info@ensembledumonde.org
Web:www.ensembledumonde.org
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Franco Files: A Concert of New Music for Solo Cello
FRANCO FILES with feature music by French composers, and composers who have lived or worked in France. The program will include compositions by Betsy Jolas, Mena Mark Hanna, Eneko Vadillo Perez, Edrick Subervi, Norman Lowrey, Matthew Barnson, and a world
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5/7/2011 08:00 PM
Concert Hall, Dorothy Young Center for the Arts
Drew University 36 Madison Ave. Madison NJ 07940 us
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Phone:(973) 408-3470
Email:tweston@drew.edu
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"4" and "The Ballad of James Byrd"
A concert of two short opera. "4" by Trevor Weston is a musical response to the 4 girls killed in the bomb of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham AL, 1963.
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7/31/2010 07:00 PM
Science Theater
Science Park High School 260 Norfolk Street Newark NJ us
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Evening of Contemporary Chamber Music
Various works for chamber music including, Trevor Weston's Songs of the Anonymous Lover for Soprano, viola and cello, and Scott Munson's US premiere of Ars Longa Vita Brevis for Musical Saw and String Quartet
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6417-ma
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7/29/2010 08:00 PM
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street New York City New York us
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Web:www.trevorweston.com
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Calypso: a rainbow of contemporary American works for voices and instruments
Cantori will present Ma'at Musings, a 20 minute piece I composed for choir and percussion using ancient Egyptian texts along with the world premiere of Simon Sargon's work, The People, Yes.
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3/6/2010 08:00 PM
Church of the Holy Trinity
316 East 88th Street New York New York us
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Phone:(212) 439-4758
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Web:www.trevorweston.com
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