Rejoicensemble!, the internationally acclaimed chamber vocal ensemble, will present the world premiere of Joyce Solomon Moorman's Dream Variations Sunday, November 4, 2004, 4 PM,
Church of St. Mark, 1417 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY.
With text based on the poems of Langston Hughes & Rashidah Ismaili,
Dream Variations, a multi-movement work scored for chorus, flute,
piano and percussion, was commissioned by Rejoicensemble with funding
by New York State Council on the Arts. The company will also give
the world premiere of Carl MaultsBy's The View from the Mountaintop.
Moorman, an Assistant Professor in the Borough of Manhattan
Community College Department of Art and Music, has had her works
performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, Triad
Chorale, LonGar Ebony Ensemble, the Plymouth Chorus and Orchestra of
Minneapolis, MN, After Dinner Opera Company, and the Moravian
Philharmonic.
According to MaultsBy, Rejoicensemble's artistic director, "This
concert gives the community a chance to hear a new work that revisits
the words of an African American legend, Langston Hughes, while
embracing one of its local composers, Joyce Moorman, all in a revered
local Brooklyn venue."
Rejoicensemble! is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to
commissioning and presenting works of African American composers as
well as increasing the general public awareness of the cultural
significance of sacred music of the African Diaspora. The company's
credits include performances at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, the
Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival (Japan), the David Byrne/PBS movie sound-track
Spiritdance, the inaugural concert for the La Guardia Performing Arts
Center Sacred Music Series, 1998 Goodwill Games, the African Burial
Grounds Dedication Ceremony, the company's self-produced Sacred Jazz
concerts at St. Philip's and Riverside Church, Harlem, with Dianne
Reeves and Jay Hoggard, concerts for AIDS awareness at St. Peter's
Citicorp Center, and the Martin Luther King Day Convocations at
Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Rejoicensemble! will reprise this concert on Monday, November 5th,
7PM, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 521 West 126th Street, Manhattan.
These concerts are made possible in part by public funds from the
National Endowment of the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts
and City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs.
Admission is by freewill offering. For information, call 718-756-6607.
September 12, 2007
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