Season 1: Episode 2: Daniel Bernard Roumain and "American Gothic"
Sound Thoughts on Art10/27/21 • 23 min
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain sees pain, legacy, and enduring hope in this famous photograph of Ella Watson, one of many by Gordon Parks. Performance poet Lady Caress describes it as “the physical form of stolen expectations.” Together, they respond to the iconic photograph with a combination of music and poetry. In the ebb and flow of his composition, DBR hopes to capture the rhythm of Watson’s life—an elegy for someone he longs to have known.
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10/27/21 • 23 min
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