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Article: Black Music Ensemble to give first concert
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 25, 1988
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On one hand, the premiere concert at 7 tonight of the Black
Music Repertory Ensemble at Columbia College's Emma and Oscar Getz
Theatre, 62 E. 11th, is an exciting breakthrough.
Organized by Columbia's Center for Black Music Research, it will
be conducted by music director T. J. Anderson, who has orchestrated
Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha." The Black Music Repertory
Ensemble is the first to specialize in black chamber and "classical"
orchestral music, and Columbia's center is the only one connected
with a college or university specializing in black composers.
On the other hand, of course, it is appalling that we are
encountering some of these composers and their music for the ...