Dickinson students will present a concert interweaving music and text to raise awareness about structural, historical and contemporary racism in the U.S. “Black Music Matters: Performance as Social Activism” will be held Sunday, April 10, at 4 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium.
The Dickinson College Choir, Jazz Ensemble and DICE (Dickinson Improvisation and Collaboration Ensemble) will cooperate in a concert that incorporates writings by Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Katherine Chapin and New York Times journalists. Its musical styles include traditional spirituals, an oratorio by William Grant Still and the bebop of Dizzy Gillespie.
Published April 8, 2016