"A Hug For Harlem" at the Schomburg Center 4.27.17 - #JeffScott #AHugForHarlem #HarlemChamberPlayers #ClassicalMusic #UrbanClassicalMusic #Harlem #SchomburgCenter #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-premier-a-hug-for-harlem-tickets-30235351751/amp Repost from @schomburglive - April 27, 6:30pm | The Harlem Chamber Players bring Jeff Scott’s momentous piece, A Hug for Harlem, to the Schomburg Center for its Harlem premiere. The heartrending A Hug for Harlem fuses strings, winds, percussion and spoken word and is inspired by prolific Harlem Renaissance writers, including Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Wallace Thurman. Grammy-nominated pianist Joseph Joubert will join us as a special guest artist, and Terrance McKnight of WQXRFM will be the host and orator. John McLaughlin Williams, Conductor PROGRAM William Grant Still, Ennanga Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Grass for Solo Piano, Strings and Percussion Jeff Scott, A Hug for Harlem for Orator and Orchestra #classicallyblack #ahugforharlem (at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
