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Join us in April for events and activities, both virtual and in-person that will involve and motivate the university community on the environment and sustainability, as well as celebrate our common home. Because when it comes to our sustainable future, Earth is truly our nest!
In this webinar we will explore the graduate programs offered at Bowling Green State University. Topics will also include admission requirements, campus services, the application process, tuition and fees, and financial support. There will also be an opportunity for Q and A.
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Join us at 7 PM on Friday, December 11, 2020, at youtube.com/bgsumusic for the second EAR|EYE event of the season. In a virtual offering we present Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Davis’s A Walk Through the Shadow, for solo piano, as paired with Bisa Butler’s The Storm, the Whirlwind, and the Earthquake, a recent acquisition by the Toledo Museum of Art that is currently on display as part of their exhibit “Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change.”
PROGRAM
Composition
A Walk Through the Shadow (1981)
Anthony Davis, composer
Humay Gasimzadeh, pianist
Artwork
The Storm, the Whirlwind, and the Earthquake (2020)
Bisa Butler, artist
Producer – Ryan Ebright
Recording Engineer and Videographer – Michael Laurello
Photographer – Collin Stegeman
Program Note by Ryan Ebright, Assistant Professor of Musicology, BGSU
The American composer Anthony Davis is best known today for his politically and socially engaged operas on subjects ranging from the 1839 rebellion aboard the slave ship Amistad to the 1970s kidnapping and radicalization of Patty Hearst. His latest opera, The Central Park Five, received this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Music. Before composing for the stage, however, Davis was better known as an improvising pianist and composer in downtown New York City, where in the early 1980s he led a small ensemble called Episteme that specialized in performing Davis’s partly notated, partly improvised music. A Walk Through the Shadow, based on the 23rd Psalm, was composed in 1981, the same year in which the composer’s father passed away. In it, Davis cycles through a series of four sustained, arpeggiated chords whose contrasting harmonies create a dark-hued but meditative atmosphere. Within this sonic environment, the pianist interweaves a wandering, lyrical melody. The spiritual nature of A Walk Through the Shadow led Davis to incorporate it into his first opera, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, which premiered at the New York City Opera in 1986. The piece serves as the musical basis for Malcolm’s pilgrimage to Mecca in the third act. We might think of this music, then, as one of the threads or fabrics with which Davis constructs his operatic portrait of Malcolm X, in the same way that Bisa Butler creates a portrait of Frederick Douglass out of bold, evocative colors and patterns.
For more on Davis and his opera X, see “Anthony Davis’s Revolutionary Opera: X,” The New Yorker, May 2020.
For more on Butler’s The Storm, the Whirlwind, and the Earthquake, see the Toledo Museum of Art’s July 13 Art Minute: https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/artminute/july-13-art-minute-bisa-butler-storm-whirlwind-and-earthquake.
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