10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February
A Tyshawn Sorey premiere and lots of Kurt Weill from Berlin are among the highlights.
Opera Philadelphia will stream the premiere of Tyshawn Sorey’s “Save the Boys,” a setting of an 1887 poem by the abolitionist and suffragist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.Credit.Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
Jan. 28, 2021
As the live performing arts continue to struggle through the coronavirus pandemic, here are 10 highlights from the flood of online music content coming in February. (Times listed are Eastern.)
So Percussion
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This extravagantly productive ensemble has long hosted concerts at its studio in Brooklyn. Now the series, Brooklyn Bound, is streaming, but with the same emphasis on showcasing new work and close collaborators. The program this time includes a dual premiere for “Individuate,” by Darian Donovan Thomas, in different realizations for So and the Bergamot Quartet; a video version of Caroline S
The Lingering Influence of Revolutionary Political Discourse From the Civil War and Reconstruction Era
Abstract
The Civil War was a seminal moment in the historical development in the United States. The American Revolution may have created the U.S. as a sovereign nation, but the Civil War helped to determine what kind of nation America would become. The Reconstruction era, from Lincoln s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation to Hayes s removal of federal troops from the South in 1877, further defined how exactly the U.S. would evolve into the nation that it is today. By examining the attitudes towards the extension of slavery in the pre-war U.S., the decisions taken by the Union and Confederate governments during the course of the war, and the stubbornness and determination demonstrated during the Reconstruction periods, this article explores how a clear pattern of revolution emerges in U.S. political discourse. The move away from a willingness to compromise and the adoption of binary pos
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Shirley Moody-Turner is an associate professor of English and African American studies and co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State. Denise Burgher is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Delaware and project coordinator for The Colored Conventions project. They talked with us about about the contributions of black women to the suffrage movement and the role of black women in political organizing.
TRANSCRIPT:
Cheraine Stanford: Welcome to Take Note on WPSU. I m Cheraine Stanford. 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th amendment that secured the right to vote for women in the United States. But that right to vote did not include all women. Black women and other women of color would continue to fight for the right to vote for decades. To talk more about the contributions of black women to the suffrage movement and the role of black women in organizing, I m joined by Shirley Moody-Turner, Penn State associate prof