As Tyson Cunningham looked out over the packed room at Lion Hills Center on Monday, he asked a simple question, one that elicited an excited response from the crowd, “What would happen if we gave our all?”
“Emmett Till, A New American Opera” opened at John Jay College’s Gerald W. Lynch Theatre on March 23, despite a petition with over 10,000 signatures circulating to cancel the show just few days before opening night. The opera was created by playwright Clare Coss, composed by Mary D. Watkins and conducted by Tania León. Based.
The musical dramatization of the 1955 lynching that helped to inspire the mass civil rights movement has been denounced by black nationalist fanatics because one of its creators is white.
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