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Five Boroughs Music Festival Presents Castle of our Skins at Schomburg Center on November 18
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FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL
PRESENTS CASTLE OF OUR SKINS
AT SCHOMBURG CENTER ON NOVEMBER 18
Boston-based Ensemble Castle of our Skins Makes
New York City Debut in Love Affects
New York, NY (October 13, 2022) — Five Boroughs Music Festival (5BMF) co-presents the New York City debut of Boston-based arts institution Castle of our Skins in Love Affects at the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Friday, November 18, 2022 at 7:00pm.
Love Affects pairs chamber music with text to explore how love influences our sense of self, humanity, heritage, and future, and is a revival of their inaugural concert program, performed in celebration of Castle of our Skins’s 10th anniversary this season. Castle of our Skins – a Black arts institution dedicated to fostering cultural curiosity and celebrating Black artistry through music in classrooms, concert halls, and beyond – performs chamber music by Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, William L. Dawson, Adolphus Hailstork, Charles Brown, and Undine Smith Moore.
The concert is co-curated with and features Castle of our Skins’ 3rd Annual Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence, Angel C. Dye. Dye is a poet, scholar of African American Literature, and the author of BREATHE (Central Square Press). She hails from Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX/Milwaukee, WI, is a graduate of Howard University, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky, and is currently a PhD in English student at Rutgers University.
Additional artists include soprano Brianna J. Robinson, violinists Matthew Vera and Mina Lavcheca, violist Ashleigh Gordon, cellist Lev Mamuya, and pianist Sarah Bob.
5BMF launches its Fall 2022 season with the Queens, Bronx, and Manhattan premieres of the Five Borough Songbook, Volume III on Friday, October 21, 2022 at 7:00pm at Flushing Town Hall; Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 7:00pm at the Bronx Music Heritage Center; and Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 3:00pm at Hebrew Union College. These anticipated performances, presented in collaboration with On Site Opera, will complete the Songbook’s citywide tour which began in April 2022 with borough premieres in Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Songbook is performed by members of Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble – sopranos Nicole Joseph and Gitanjali Mathur, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Duarte, tenor Haitham Haidar, and baritone Jonathan Woody – in addition to pianist Erika Switzer, violinist Pala Garcia, and cellist John Popham.
Concert Information
Love Affects
Friday, November 18, 2022 at 7:00pm
Langston Hughes Auditorium, Schomburg Center | 515 Malcolm X Blvd | New York, NY 10037
Tickets: $15-$25
Link: https://5bmf.org/events/castle-of-our-skins/
COLERIDGE TAYLOR-PERKINSON: Calvary String Quartet No. 1
WILLIAM L. DAWSON: Largo for String Quartet edited by Charlie Harmon
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: Songs of Love and Justice for voice and piano
CHARLES BROWN: Song Without Words for voice and piano
UNDINE SMITH MOORE: Love Let the Wind Cry…How I Adore Thee for voice piano
Matthew Vera, violin
Mina Lavcheca, violin
Ashleigh Gordon, viola
Lev Mamuya, cello
Brianna J. Robinson, soprano
Sarah Bob, piano
Angel C. Dye, poet/narrator
About Five Boroughs Music Festival
Since 2007, Five Boroughs Music Festival (5BMF) has brought virtuosic chamber music performances of the highest caliber to every borough of NYC, cultivating new audiences for the genre and encouraging music lovers to look beyond Manhattan for outstanding performances. Lauded as “imaginative” by The New York Times, “enterprising” by The New Yorker, and “vital” by WQXR’s Operavore blog, 5BMF’s commitment to musical outreach and diverse programming has distinguished it as a standout presence in the New York City arts community from its earliest days.
5BMF’s artist roster of over 250 individual performers and ensembles is comprised of talented emerging artists and distinguished musicians alike, representing a diverse range of musical genres and styles. Its venues are just as eclectic, and have included performing arts spaces, cultural centers, and historic New York City landmarks such as Federal Hall, Pregones Theater, Flushing Town Hall, King Manor Museum, Brooklyn Historical Society, the Alice Austen House, and the Staten Island Museum, to name merely a few.
As champions of new music, 5BMF has commissioned over 50 composers and presented world premieres of their works all across New York City, most notably the two borough-wide tours of its Five Borough Songbook Volumes I and II. 5BMF’s outreach initiatives continue to expand every year, and have included program-related interactive lectures and discussions, public masterclasses with world renowned performing artists, and free public programming. Learn more at www.5bmf.org.
About Castle of our Skins
Castle of our Skins is a Black arts institution dedicated to fostering cultural curiosity and celebrating Black artistry through music. In classrooms, concert halls, and beyond, Castle of our Skins invites Black heritage and culture exploration, spotlighting both unsung and celebrated figures of past and present.
About Angel C. Dye
Angel C. Dye is a poet, scholar of African American Literature and the author of BREATHE (Central Square Press). She is from Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas/Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a graduate of Howard University, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky, where she was a Nikky Finney fellow. Dye has received fellowships from The Watering Hole and Furious Flower Poetry Center and her work has appeared in About Place Journal, The Pierian Journal, African Voices Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and A Gathering Together Journal, among other places. Dye writes in the tradition of Lucille Clifton, Amiri Baraka, and Sterling A. Brown, striving to carry on their legacies of unapologetic blackness in the face of oppression, radical self-love, and artistic activism. She aims to discover, as Audre Lorde explains, “the words [she does] not yet have,” and is currently a PhD in English student at Rutgers University.
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