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Wadada Leo Smith at Atlas Performing Arts Center
Courtesy of Ann Braithwaite | Posted on October 23, 2013
Where
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street, Ne
Washington, DC
Map
202.399.7993
When
Fri, October 25, 2013
8 pm
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Musicians
Anthony Davis
pianoJohn Lindberg
bassAnthony Brown
percussionShalini Vijayan
violinMona Tian
violinAndrew McIntosh
violaAshley Walters
celloAlison Bjorkedal
harpLynn Vartan
percussionWadada Leo Smith
trumpetAbout
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Atlas Performing Arts Center presents the Washington, DC premiere of Ten Freedom Summers, trumpeter/composer/musical innovator Wadada Leo Smith’s soul-searching tribute to the Civil Rights Movement paying homage to heroes including Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The event will also premiere the 23rd work in the TFS collection: That Sunday Morning: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley: We Carry You In Our Hearts, which remembers the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Smith will also be premiering new music written for the 22nd composition in TFS: The March on Washington, D.C. — August 1963....