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International Women's Day – Dr Samantha Ege
The Black Chicago Renaissance Women: Lives & Legacies in Music
Released: Monday 8th March 2021, 5.00pm (GMT)
TORCH YouTube Channel
Talk and Performance from Dr Samantha Ege, Lincoln College Oxford.
In celebration of International Women’s Day (8 March 2021), Dr. Samantha Ege presents an hour-long lecture-recital. Therein, she traces the lives and legacies of Black women composers in Chicago. The music of Florence B. Price, Nora Douglas Holt, Margaret Bonds, and Betty Jackson King represents the foundations of a vibrant creative network. Dr. Ege contextualises this in the transformative movement of the Negro Renaissance.
Programme:
Florence B. Price (1887-1953)
Fantasie Nègre No. 2 in G minor (1932)
Fantasie Nègre No. 3 in F minor (1932)
Betty Jackson King (1928-1994)
Seasonal Sketches (1955)
I. Spring Intermezzo
II. Summer Interlude
III. Autumn Dance
IV. Winter Holiday
Nora Douglas Holt (c.1885-1974)
Negro Dance (1921)
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)
Spiritual Suite (1967)
I. Valley of the Bones
II. The Bells
III. Troubled Water
Dr. Samantha Ege is Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at Lincoln College. Her research focuses on Florence B. Price and the network of female practitioners in the age of the Black Chicago Renaissance. She released the album Four Women: Music for Solo Piano by Price, Kaprálová, Bilsland and Bonds with Wave Theory Records in 2018. Her next release with Lorelt (Lontano Records Ltd.) focuses on Price’s repertoire.
