Daily News | Newspaper ads seeking the return of enslaved people inspires new music for Singing Freedom
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s Singing Freedom concerts — Jan. 15 and 16 at the Kimmel Center — featuring the star singer/fiddler Rhiannon Giddens , sprang from recently discovered published accounts of enslaved people who’d escaped from their enslavers, and detailed classified advertisements that promised rewards to people who’d return them.Three Dialogues
Bob “has some beard on his upper lip. His left leg is somewhat shorter than his right, causing him to hobble in his walk. He has straight hair.” Others are identified by their scars — some on their backs from being flogged. The Jan. 15 program opens with Giddens and also includes the newly-written 11-song cycle “songs in flight” by Shawn E. Okpebholo performed by leading singers, Reginald Mobley, and Will Liverman. The wide-ranging texts, some by the noted poet Tsitsi Ella Jaji, meditate on some of the stories behind the texts, and also acknowledge the 2012 Florida shooting of Trayvon Martin.
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