New BMRE: The Black Composer and the String Quartet
Center for Black Music Research
Columbia College Chicago
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Principal Conductor and Artistic Director
Program
Blues March (1958)Benny Golson (b.1929)
Modes for String Quartet (1968)Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940)
String Quartet no. 1 (1967)Alvin Singleton (b. 1940)
Intermission
Spiritual Fantasy no. 12 for String Quartet (1988)Frederick Tillis (b. 1930)
Melodic Strains (1991)Jimmy Heath (b. 1926)
The event was presented in collaboration with Chicago Park District's South Shore Cultural Center, with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
