2021-2022 season
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upcoming
Miniature festival
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Featuring world premiere 30 second miniatures for flute and harp submitted as part of our Black Composer Miniature 2.0 Challenge, PLUS haikus and tanka poems submitted as part of our Black Poet Miniature Challenge, PLUS performances by Project STEP, Boston City-Wide String Orchestra, and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras' Intensive Community Program students of viola works from our inaugural Black Composer Miniature Challenge!
September - December 2021: On Facebook, YouTube & Instagram |
safika: dr. bongani ndodana-breen portrait concert
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Castle of our Skins is excited to be back in residence at the Longy School of Music of Bard College! As part of our third annual residency, we will feature an immersive three-day residency focused on the music of Dr. Bongani Ndodana-Breen complete with lectures, master classes, open rehearsals and concerts culminating in our portrait concert: Safika.
Castle of our Skins is an Ensemble in Residence at the Longy School of Music at Bard College.
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sound & appliqué
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Featuring world premiere compositions by Elizabeth Brown, Renée Baker, and Lauren McCall, all inspired by African American quilting traditions. New quilts and poetry commissions by quilters L'Merchie Frazier and Alpha M. Bruton and Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence poet Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul.
January 21, 2022, 7:00pm @ Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music January 22, 2022, 6:00pm @ Brattleboro Music Center, VT
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Thresh & hold
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Movement of family and broken family. Those who migrated and those who stayed. What does the land remember and hear? Movement of personal healing and reflection in order to return ‘home’ to self and family.
Join Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence poet Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul for an evening-length, multimedia experience centered around their new book of poetry Thresh & Hold.
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remembrance
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Lecture-performance with musicologist-pianist Dr. Samantha Ege, featuring works for strings and piano by Florence Price, Undine Smith Moore, Hannah Kendall and Frederick Tillis.
March 24, 2022, 6:00pm lecture & 7:00pm concert @ The Boston Athenaeum Plus, a NYC-debut with the Five Boroughs Music Festival, date/time TBA
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home
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Home explores home as a concept deeply based in past memory and present circumstances, one’s physical environment, the feeling of familiarity, and sense of culture. Curated and featuring flutist and composer Nathalie Joachim, Home features the works of Allison Loggins-Hull, Pamela Z, Nathalie Joachim, Valerie Coleman, Jessie Montgomery and Tania Léon.
April 10, 2022, 1:30pm @ Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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for black people
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Featuring the world premiere of Daniel Bernard Roumain's Music for Black People written for flute, voice, piano and cello as part of Celebrity Series of Boston's Solo(s) Together project.
May 5, 2022, time TBA: Virtual Livestream
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University of Oxford Residency
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Lectures, performances and recording projects with musicologist-pianist Dr. Samantha Ege as part of COOS' TORCH Visiting Fellow at Oxford University.
May 2-10, 2022, various times @ Oxford University, England This event is part of the Humanities Cultural Programme.
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2021-2022 SHIRLEY GRAHAM DU BOIS CREATIVE IN RESIDENCE
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The Shirley Graham Du Bois Creative in Residency program is generously funded by donors Arlene and Larry Dunn and invites creative artists to collaborate in various ways with COOS throughout the season.
Meet our 2021-2022 Creative in Residence: Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul |
