Left to right are Terrance McKnight, Amadi Azikiwe, J’Nai Bridges, Lady Jess, and Ashley Jackson.
This is an online event with no live audience. We hope you will join us.
PROGRAM
Jessie Montgomery Starburst
Alice Coltrane Prema for Harp and Strings
arranged by Ashley Jackson and by Tom Cunningham of Urban Playground Orchestra
Adolphus Hailstork TULSA 1921 (Pity Theses Ashes, Pity This Dust) for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
*World Premiere - libretto by Herbert Woodward Martin
Trevor Weston The People Could Fly for Violin Solo, Narrator and Strings
(Based upon an African-American folktale by Virginia Hamilton)
FEATURING
Amadi Azikiwe, Music Director and Conductor
Terrance McKnight, Host and Performer
J’Nai Bridges, Mezzo-Soprano
Lady Jess, Violin
Ashley Jackson, Harp
With an orchestra comprising members of The Harlem Chamber Players
Also featuring dancers from Harlem School of the Arts
REGISTRATION AND VIEWING
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You may watch the digital program here via The Greene Space.
IN THE NEWS
- Listed in the New York Times “5 Things to Do This Weekend” here.
- Read CNN’s article about our upcoming concert here!
- Watch and listen to Sandra Bookman on ABC’s “Here and Now” interview with Dr. Hailstork and Liz Player here. (about 13 minutes in)
- Read more about Dr. Hailstork in the Amsterdam News here.
- Read about the librettist of TULSA 1921 in the Dayton Daily News here.
- Listed as one of top 10 operas to stream this week by OperaWire here.
- Listed in Musical America’s guide to free streams, June 14-21 here.
- Listed in The New Yorker’s “Goings on About the Town” here.
- Mentioned on local Tulsa 2 News Oklahoma here.
The composers left to right are Jessie Montgomery, Alice Coltrane, Adolphus Hailstork, Trevor Weston.
Students from Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) dancing to Trevor Weston’s The People Could Fly for our concert to be broadcast on Juneteenth from HSA’s newly renovated Dorothy Maynor Hall.
THE ORCHESTRA
Violins: Ashley Horne (co-concertmaster), Claire Chan (co-concertmaster), Philip Payton, Josh Henderson, Ellen Gronningen, Maiani DaSilva, Lauren Cauley, Francisco Salazar, Sandra Billingslea, José Pietri-Coimbre, Garry Ianco, Majid Khaliq, Eddie Venegas, Charlene Bishop
Violas: William Frampton, Aundrey Mitchell, Nicole Wright, Heather Faust
Cellos: Wayne Smith, Robert Burkhart, Leo Grinhauz, Melissa Westgate
Basses: Anthony Morris, Roger Wagner
Harp: Ashley Jackson
Vibraphone/Suspended Cymbal/Bass Drum: Scott Still
HSA DANCERS
Alexia Stewart, Devin Graves, Jaylynn Vann, Kendall McDowell, Bless Goode, Evan Blake, Maliha Ramhadan, Dylan Van Putten, Jayda Hill, Walter Russell III, Max Malachi, Jabari King
Choreography: Leyland Simmons
Costumes: Alasia Harris
Staging & Prop Design: Aubrey Lynch II & Adrienne Tarver
We thank our partners -- The Greene Space at WQXR and WNYC, Harlem Stage, and the Harlem School of the Arts, The Herb Alpert Center -- for joining us in this production.
