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2006-07 This Season has ended.  Forró For All  Illstyle & Peace  VocalEssence WITNESS Concert  Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats  WAI |
VocalEssence: WITNESS brings another innovative achievement to Ordway Center for the Performing Arts with a musical tribute to Rosa Parks. Continuing their commitment to contemporary composers, VocalEssence commemorates Parks' extraordinary strength in Hannibal Lokumbe's Dear Mrs. Parks. Based on fictional letters to Parks, Lokumbe's masterpiece incorporates African and African-American idioms to create a powerful blend of voices praising her courage and expressing a hope for freedom. WITNESS also expands on Lokumbe's themes with a collection of freedom songs from around the world. In this celebration of music's power to bring social change, VocalEssence heralds the universal strength of the human spirit as expressed through the realm of music. The concert will feature the full 130-voice VocalEssence Chorus with orchestra and soloists, including Jevetta Steele, who sang the world premiere of Dear Mrs. Parks with the Detroit Symphony in February, 2005, and baritone Kevin Deas. |
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