"Concert Spirituals and the Black Soprano": Recital and Panel Discussion (4/22, 7pm)

"CONCERT SPRITUALS AND THE BLACK SOPRANO" (A RECITAL AND PANEL DISCUSSION)

Wednesday, April 22, 2015
(Concert at 7pm; Panel Discussion at 8pm)
Location:  Columbia University St. Paul's Chapel, 1160 Amsterdam Avenue
Free and Open to the Public!

PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:

• Magdalena Stern Baczewska, Pianist and Director of Columbia's Music Performance Program
• Kevin Fellezs, Assistant Professor of Music and African-American Studies
• Farah Jasmine Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature
• Dr. Paul T. Kwami, Keyboardist and Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
• Marti Newland, PhD, Soprano and Core Lecturer for Music Humanities
• Whitney Slaten, Saxophonist and PhD Candidate Ethnomusicology. Columbia University

This event is jointly sponsored by:

Music Performance Program
Columbia University Department of Music
Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program
Center of Ethnomusicology
Institute of Research in African-American Studies
Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
Office of the Core Curriculum