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Sphinx Virtuosi; Damien Sneed, Piano, at Carnegie Hall (Site)

Friday October 11, 2019, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Performers
Sphinx Virtuosi
J’Nai Bridges, Mezzo-Soprano
Will Liverman, Baritone
Damien Sneed, Piano
Chorale Le Chateau

The musicians of the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization perform a timely program in conjunction with the nationwide 400 Years of Inequality initiative. Damien Sneed’s “Our Journey: 400 Years from Africa to Jamestown”—from his opera We Shall Overcome—explores the plight of Africans forced into slavery with musical styles from the African American diaspora, while Michael Abels’s Global Warming celebrates diverse cultures. There’s also Philip Herbert’s moving string piece memorializing a teenage victim of racial violence, a new work by Xavier Foley co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, and classics by Schubert and Bartók.

Program
MICHAEL ABELS Global Warming
BARTÓK Divertimento for Strings
PHILIP HERBERT Elegy: In Memoriam—Stephen Lawrence
XAVIER FOLEY For Justice and Peace for Violin, Bass, and String Orchestra (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
SCHUBERT Presto from String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden” (arr. for string orchestra by Mahler)
DAMIEN SNEED “Our Journey: 400 Years from Africa to Jamestown” from We Shall Overcome (World Premiere)

Details

Date:
Friday October 11, 2019
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Website:
https://www.carnegiehall.org/en/calendar/2019/10/11/sphinx-virtuosi-0700pm

Venue

Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019 United States
Phone:
212.247.7800
Website:
https://www.carnegiehall.org/