Raise Your Voice! for African Dance - Community Conversation
Raise Your Voice! for African Dance - Community Conversation
Sun, Sep 11, 4:45 PM
The Dance Complex • Cambridge, MA
Free
Community Conversation w/ Dr. Diane White-Clayton
Date and time
Join Landmarks Orchestra for a very special conversation with Dr. Diane White-Clayton about her new piece, Many Mansions!
About this event
*Please note: this event is free of charge, but all guests must register via Eventbrite.
Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and Berklee College of Music, will host a Community Conversation with Dr. Diane White-Clayton about her newly commissioned orchestral piece, Many Mansions. There will be a round table discussion with the Dean of Berklee's Africana Studies Division, Dr. Emmett G. Price, III, Landmarks Orchestra Music Director, Christopher Wilkins, Grammy Award winning mezzo-soprano, Tichina Vaughn and widely-acclaimed baritone, Phillip Bullock. This discussion will focus on Dr. Diane White-Clayton’s new piece, which will make its debut on Landmarks’ August 6th Hatch Shell concert. Join us Wednesday, August 3rd at 7pm in Berklee’s Red Room at Café 939.
About Dr. Diane White-Clayton: Affectionately known as “Dr. Dee,” Diane White-Clayton travels extensively as a vocalist, pianist, composer, conductor, workshop clinician, and speaker. Possessing a three-and-a-half octave range, Diane weaves her high operatic soprano voice with her soulful gospel roots in her self-produced recordings. As a composer, her works have been performed at such venues as the John F. Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, with her most popular piece, “Clap Praise” having been performed across the globe. You can learn more about Dr. Dee at www.bythax.org.
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