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 World premiere commission by Dr. Candace Steele Flippin, the Briggs Foundation, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

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Pictures at an Exhibition & Chris Brubeck Guitar Concerto World Premiere

Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center

Multidisciplinary artist Helga Davis hosts this musical tribute to the groundbreaking American bass-baritone Paul Robeson (1898–1976), performed by Philharmonic musicians and sung by the Grammy Award winner Mark S. Doss. The program also includes the World Premiere of Thomas Flippin’s The Lost Village of Seneca for string ensemble, a NY Phil co-commission with The Juilliard School and American Composers Forum.

Here I Stand: Paul Robeson’s 125th Birthday

Mother AME Zion Church

In a series of “gripping portraits of a vast social upheaval” (Chicago Tribune), Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran’s deeply personal presentation Two Wings explores the Great Migration of six million Black Americans from the rural South to northern cities, the West, and beyond.  The husband and wife duo—he a MacArthur Fellow and acclaimed jazz composer and pianist, she a celebrated classical vocalist and composer—trace their family histories through the music that accompanied these brave travelers throughout the 20th century, from Harlem Renaissance-era jazz tunes, gospel hymns, bebop standards, and Broadway show tunes, to classical and chamber music and the Morans’ own compositions. The program even passes through California, where both families put down roots and where Hall Moran was born.  Two Wings also references influential texts by Black authors, historians, and poets. The production, in its West Coast premiere, will be recreated especially for Cal Performances audiences, with a star-studded roster of performers, writers, thinkers, and special guests.

Thomas Flippin

Composer

Events

Oct 1, 2023

Pictures at an Exhibition & Chris Brubeck Guitar Concerto World Premiere · Memphis Symphony Orchestra

Apr 2, 2023

Here I Stand: Paul Robeson’s 125th Birthday · New York Philharmonic

Feb 17, 2022

Jazz:Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration ·

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