ASU Chamber Orchestra Strings: Reflections of Hope and Home

Join the ASU Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Bernard Roumain and guests from ASU’s Theatre and Dance program in a meditative concert in celebration of Black History Month. In addition to Quinn Mason’s moving Reflections on a Memorial, Julius Eastman’s minimalist masterpiece Joy Boy and Roumain’s ode to Rosa Parks Isorhythmicnationlistic, ASU Alumni soprano Yophi Adia returns to sing a newly created arrangement of Roumain’s powerful They Still Want to Kill Us written to commemorate the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.

Jessie Montgomery: Starburst
Quinn Mason: Reflections on a Memorial
Julius Eastman: Joy Boy
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Isorhythmiclationistic from String Quartet No. 5 “Rosa Parks”
Daniel Bernard Roumain: They Still Want to Kill Us (world premiere arrangement)
Jessie Montgomery: I Want to Go Home

Free Admission

Event Date

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Event Location

Tempe Campus

Ticketing

Free event

Event Category

Arts and Culture

Building/Room/Location

Music Building, Evelyn Smith Music Theatre

Hosting/Sponsoring organization/Unit

School of Music, Dance and Theatre

    

      

Name for event inquiries

Lynne MacDonald

Email for event inquiries

lynne.macdonald@asu.edu