Skip to Main Content

Core Ensemble Performs Chamber Music Theatre Work Celebrating Harlem Renaissance

On February 23 at 5:00 p.m. in the CU Center, the Core Ensemble will perform the chamber music theatre work, Of Ebony Embers: Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance. Chamber  Music Theatre is a unique performance format created by the Core Ensemble, featuring a marriage of theatrical narrative to chamber music performance. 

                                                                                           contact: Brianna Springer

949-214-3063

[email protected]

CORE ENSEMBLE PERFORMS  CHAMBER MUSIC THEATRE WORK CELEBRATING HARLEM RENAISSANCE

IRVINE, Calif. – February 3, 2014 – On February 23 at 5:00 p.m. in the CU Center, the Core Ensemble will perform the chamber music theatre work, Of Ebony Embers: Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance.

Chamber  Music Theatre is a unique performance format created by the Core Ensemble, featuring a marriage of theatrical narrative to chamber music performance. The script was written by Akin Babatunde, who also directs the show.  

Celebrating the music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance era in New York City, Of Ebony Embers examines the lives of three outstanding but very different African American poets - Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay - as seen through the eyes of the great painter and muralist Aaron Douglas. 

The Core Ensemble performs music by African American composers ranging from jazz greats Duke Ellington, The lonious Monk and Charles Mingus to concert music composers Jeffrey Mumford and George Walker.

Actor Jamyl Dobson portrays multiple characters while interacting with the onstage musical trio of cello, piano and percussion. Dobson recently returned from the international tour of Zorro the Musical.

Since 1993, the Core Ensemble has toured nationally to every region of the United States and internationally to England, Russia, Ukraine, Australia and the British Virgin Islands. The Ensemble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene McDermott Award for Excellence in the Arts awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received support from the State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, New England Foundation for the Arts, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation. 

No tickets are required for the 5:00 p.m. showing of Of Ebony Embers.

 

About Concordia University Irvine

Concordia University Irvine prepares students for their vocations—their calling in life. Concordia University Irvine offers undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and adult degree programs in a beautiful Southern California location in the City of Irvine, with online and regional cohort options. Concordia’s undergraduate program is distinctive among universities in California because of its nationally recognized Core Curriculum, and its Lutheran heritage that provides a thoughtful and caring Christian community that lives out the theology of "Grace Alone. Faith Alone." Concordia is a U.S.News Top TierRegional University and has been named by The Chronicle of Higher Education as one of thefastest growing private nonprofit master's institutions. Concordia University Irvine enrolls over 4,000 students.

print
Back to top