The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents The Harlem Chamber Players’ 17th Annual Black History Month Celebration. The featured guest artist are cellist-composer Akua Dixon and soprano Candice Hoyes. This concert will include the New York premiere of the jazz cellist-composer Akua Dixon's We The People, the last movement of which will be a world premiere, thanks to a generous grant from the Cheswatyr Foundation.

TICKETS
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PROGRAM
Terrance McKnight Big Timer’s Blues (featuring poetry by Langston Hughes with a traditional spiritual)
Candice Hoyes Zora’s Moon for soprano and string quartet (arr. Jordyn Davis)
Akua Dixon We The People for string quartet (New York premiere)
Ernest Chausson Chanson perpetuelle, Op. 37 for soprano, piano, and string quartet
Akua Dixon “Uncross My Soul” from Marie Laveau, an opera
Akua Dixon Afrika! Afrika! for solo cello and string quintet

ARTISTS
Akua Dixon, cello
Candice Hoyes, soprano
Don Byron, clarinet
Ashley Horne, violin
Claire Chan, violin
William Frampton, viola
Wayne Smith, cello
Anthony Morris, double bass
Jas Ogiste, piano
Terrance McKnight, host and performing artist

IN THE NEWS
“Candice Hoyes Headlines Black History Month Celebration at The Schomburg Center”
OperaWire — February 2, 2025

“10 Ways to Commemorate Black History Month in New York City”
Gothamist — January 29, 2025

“The Harlem Chamber Players 17th Annual Black History Month Celebration At The Schomburg In Harlem”
Harlem World — January 21, 2025

“Celebrating Black History Month under the Theme ‘African American and Labor’”
Caribbean Life — January 27, 2025