Last Saturday Opera Theatre of St. Louis premiered a new adaptation of Scott Joplin’s legendary opera Treemonisha. It is a bright and worthy addition to our recent flurry of adoration of some of America’s major black composers; the Black Rep closed their stunningly fine evening of Eubie Blake’s music three days earlier.
Sankofa the idea that we can draw from our past to make positive progress in the future serves as a guiding light for WRTI, never more clearly than during this Black History Month.