Weekend Concert Series
Castle of Our Skins
with Seth Parker Woods, cello, and Kyle Marshall, choreography
Sunday
October 27, 2019
1:30 - 3 pm
Calderwood Hall
Program
Alvin Singleton, Secret Desire to be Black, for string quartet (1988)
Florence Price, String Quartet in A Minor (1935) Boston Premiere
Julius Eastman, The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc (1981)
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, “Fuguing Tune” and “Calvary Ostinato” (1973) from Lamentations: Black Folk Song Suite for solo cello
For several thrilling seasons, Boston-based chamber ensemble Castle of Our Skins have been inventive champions of the music of Black American composers. This season, they bring an exciting program of music and performance to Calderwood Hall, including the Boston premiere of a string quartet by Florence Price—a 1906 graduate of New England Conservatory—and new choreography to Julius Eastman’s energetic work for ten cellos.
Friends of Fenway Court Patrons at the Curators' Circle level and above are invited to receive complimentary tickets and join us for a private reception after the concert.
The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; Marie Louise and David Scudder Concert; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. The Museum is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the State of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
