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2020-07-13 00:55:00
Inquirer.com: Philadelphia string players are planning two candlelight vigils for violinist Elijah McClain [George Walker's "Lyric for Strings" to be performed]
[…] group of local string players is planning two candlelight vigils in his memory — one Wednesday at Malcolm X Park in West Philadelphia, and another July 19 on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The aim is to “lift up voices of Black artists and musicians, and to hold the space for victims of systemic racism and police brutality,” says instrumentalist Veronica Jurkiewicz, one of the organizers, who will play viola at the vigils. “Music has always found a way to bring peace and bring a calm to people when there is so much tragedy in their lives,” says Alberta Douglas, a Philadelphia violinist who is another one of the planners. “It has a way of conveying emotion that words can’t always do.” McClain, a Black […]
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2019-06-08 17:27:00
50 Years After Stonewall, Classical Music Still Fights the Fight – Exhibits, panels, opera, more mark 50th anniversary of Stonewall riots
[…] how Moonlite was dubbed at its May 16 premiere in Philadelphia by the vocal group Variant 6 and Mobius Percussion. And that wasn't an exaggeration. The two-hour choral opera details the events leading to the moment in which Andrew George Scott (1842-80) – already notorious for robbing a bank or two – was caught in a shoot-out that sent him to the gallows. With so many dramatic episodes to choose from in Scott's life, Veronica Jurkiewicz's libretto is weighted toward the dramatic conclusion, when Scott and his lover James Nesbitt, who had been publicly vilified, headed into the bush country looking for work, but ended up starved and exhausted. The final straw was a torrential rainstorm that washed away or ruined what little they had. Except for their firearms. In desperation, Scott and his gang held up the railroad station and hotel, resulting in a shoot-out in which Nesbitt died […]
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