TORCH Presents: Black Chicago Renaissance Women – Lives & Legacies in Music
Free (Free)
Florence Price — Fantasie nègre No. 3 in F minor
Nora Holt — Negro Dance, Op. 25, No. 1
Betty Jackson King — Four Seasonal Sketches
Margaret Bonds — Spiritual Suite
Samantha Ege, piano & lecturer
Florence Price – Fantasie nègre No. 2 in G minor
Florence Price – Fantasie nègre No. 3 in F minor
Nora Holt – Negro Dance, Op. 25, No. 1
Betty Jackson King – Four Seasonal Sketches
Margaret Bonds – Spiritual Suite
In celebration of International Women’s Day (8 March 2021), Dr. Samantha Ege presents an hour-long lecture-recital. Therein, she traces the lives and legacies of Black women composers in Chicago. The music of Florence B. Price, Nora Douglas Holt, Margaret Bonds, and Betty Jackson King represents the foundations of a vibrant creative network. Dr. Ege contextualises this in the transformative movement of the Negro Renaissance.
The broadcast will take place at 5pm GMT / 9am Pacific.
Presented by TORCH: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities - in collaboration with Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.