Hear the world premiere of music honoring the legacies of three black Chicago trailblazers: Chicago’s Haitian founder, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable; Chicago’s first black mayor, Harold Washington; and the first black president, Barack Obama.
The program includes performances of music commissioned by Crossing Borders Music for the event, including “Nostalgia” by Jean “Rudy” Perrault, honoring DuSable; “Fraternitas! Fraternitas! Dei Patris Nomine,” a musical tribute to Washington; and Sabrina C D Jean Louis’ “La Cité,” a tribute to the legacy of DuSable.
Perrault will also be performing “Brother Malcolm,” his imagination, through music, a conversation between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on the eve of the inauguration of Obama.
In addition to the performances, the event will showcase artwork by Chicago-based artists Amanda Sexton and Julio Cesar Montano Montenegro celebrating the three black pioneers, provided by the Haitian American Museum of Chicago.
When:
February 10, 2018
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Where:
Preston Bradley Hall @ The Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St.
Chicago, IL
60602