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Hamilton and Malcolm X: Radical Race Representation in Opera and Musical Theatre

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Wednesday, September 07, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
William Henry Curry, Jackson Cooper, Mark Anthony Neal
Wednesdays at the Center

This talk will be a retrospective look at these works and the way they furthered diversity in American opera and musical theatre. Diversity is used more often today than ever before, thanks to musicals like HAMILTON and the controversial OTELLO which made the authenticity of theatrical storytelling a hot topic. This talk will be led by William Henry Curry, Music Director of the Durham Symphony, who has conducted the Grammy-nominated recording of opera X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X, has reached thousands of diverse audience members with the DSO's "All that Jazz" program and work with kidzNotes. Curry wrote "Eulogy for a Dream," based on Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech which has been narrated by the late William Warfield of PORGY AND BESS fame. Jackson Cooper is a Theatre and Classical Music Critic for Classical Voice of North Carolina and a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and Music Critics Association of North America.

This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity. A light lunch will be served. Parking is available in nearby Trent Rd and Erwin Rd parking decks. The series provides 1 hour parking vouchers to guests.