Amplifying Black Voices:
America, We Need to Talk
Series Premiere
Featuring Composer Fred Onovwerosuoke
Sunday, March 14, 2021, 4PM
Free, Donations welcome!
"We breathe the same air, want the same things, we need to talk."
– Michael Castro, Poet Laureate of St. Louis
Join us for conversation, music, and poetry as we shine light on classcal music, race relations in Amerca, and the movement for Black Lives through the prism of Onovwerosuoke's kaleidoscopic work A Triptych of American Voices: A Cantata of the People, commissioned for Coro Allegro in 2019,
With guests:
Artist Adelia Parker-Castro
Tai Oney, countertenor, Jonas Budris, tenor,
Christopher Wilkins, Music Director of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra,
Willis Emmons and Zach Durant-Emmons, commissioners
Moderators:
Coro Allegro Artistic Director David Hodgkins
Executive Director Yoshi Campbell
Sponsored in part by Willis Emmons & Zach Durant-Emmons and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.