Laureate Libretto – Margaret Garner
03/25/20 • 14 min
The libretto for this week’s piece was written by poet laureate and iconic literary figure Toni Morrison. Margaret Garner is an opera that tells the story of an escaped slave who is captured but decides to kill her own children rather than see them forced back into slavery. Our own Angela Brown voiced one of the principal characters during the world premiere in Detroit, and she walks us through this powerful and thought-provoking opera.
Featured Music:
"Ease Yourselves," "He Is By," and "Epilogue" from Margaret Garner by Richard Danielpour, performed by soprano Angela Brown and pianist Cliff Jackson
The libretto for this week’s piece was written by poet laureate and iconic literary figure Toni Morrison. Margaret Garner is an opera that tells the story of an escaped slave who is captured but decides to kill her own children rather than see them forced back into slavery. Our own Angela Brown voiced one of the principal characters during the world premiere in Detroit, and she walks us through this powerful and thought-provoking opera.
Featured Music:
"Ease Yourselves," "He Is By," and "Epilogue" from Margaret Garner by Richard Danielpour, performed by soprano Angela Brown and pianist Cliff Jackson
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Featured Music:
"Sinner Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass," arranged by Evelyn Simpson Curenton, performed by soprano Jessye Norman
"Oh, Glory," arranged by Evelyn Simpson Curenton, formed by soprano Kathleen Battle
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Featured Music:
"Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All," "They Went Home," and "Many and More" from "A Woman's Life" by Richard Danielpour, performed by Angela Brown and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Melanated Moments in Classical Music - Laureate Libretto – Margaret Garner
Transcript
[inaudible]
Angela BrownHey everybody. It's your co-host Angela Brown and I with my partner in creative crime, Mr. Joshua Thompson back again to give you another Melanated Moment in Classical Music.
Joshua ThompsonThat is right. We are back. We are black and we are super jacked to talk about more compositions and composers that we don't hear a lot about.
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