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Join us as the Black Leadership Arts Collective (B.L.A.C.) presents a series of masterclasses and lectures designed to support and empower Black vocal artists through leadership, performance, and by supporting creative and artistic endeavors.

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Black Leadership Arts Collective: Kenneth Overton and Russell Thomas

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Blue

Louis Armstrong Park

The New York Choral Society presents A Knee on the Neck, a concert that pairs two cantatas that bring our attention to the devastating pain of injustice and conflict in a program that call us to come together with a collective resolve for justice, freedom, and peace.  Featuring the New York premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s new requiem cantata A Knee on the Neck.

A Knee on the Neck

Lincoln Center

Washington Square Music Festival

Washington Square Park

In 1937, NBC began a live radio broadcast of Black American composer Robert Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses. However… mid-performance NBC cut the broadcast feed giving in to complaints from outraged listeners. On Feburary 9, Experience Dett’s full-length oratorio – performed without interruption – and find out why we think this might be the greatest American choral work of all time. 

The Ordering of Moses

Yale University

New Orleans Opera

Kenneth Overton

Baritone

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 9, 2025

The Ordering of Moses · New Haven Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Feb 15, 2024

Black Leadership Arts Collective: Kenneth Overton and Russell Thomas · University of Maryland School of Music

10 - 12 Nov, 2023

Blue · New Orleans Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

The Father in Blue by Tesori

New Orleans Opera

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