Tickets:
http://m.bpt.me/event/1791763
"Music talks to me. It may offer visions of hope, renewal, peace or comfort. It may point me to new ways of thinking, living, feeling or being.
And I talk back. I share my own visions. I check if I’ve grasped the message, and try to say it back again. A conversation starts.
This conversation is with African American spirituals. Whether rooted in song, dance and drumming of West Africa, the experience of oppression of an uprooted people, or the teachings of a transformative faith, they are a voice of human truth. Songs of black American slaves spoke that truth around the world. Responses emerged: an array of arrangements, whole new genres of music, and work for a more just world.
Through new sonorities and textures, we express truths from our own backgrounds. We present melodies, harmonies, rhythms, words and themes from spirituals, sometimes exploring traditional contexts, and sometimes trying out new ones. Our responses are as much question as answer. I invite new responses — musical, visual, verbal, — from the audience and anyone whose experience spirituals can voice.
On February 12, three outstanding spoken word artists, Demitrius Burnett, Schmian Evans, and YaNi Davis, have joined into the conversation with me. They have found words to clearly express ideas that had come up for me as I worked on this music. Together we explore that many things that the spirituals are saying to us today."
- Andrew Jamieson
Cost: $15 students; $20 seniors; $25 general