Performance Music: Theater for the 21st Century
Rhodessa Jones, and Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids are the creative muscle behind one of the nation’s most innovative performing arts companies, Cultural Odyssey. They are internationally celebrated for their innovative blend of theater, music, dance and social commentary.
“Performance Music” will include excerpts of several of their significant performances, including the spoken word musical tone poem, “The Grandma Cole Story”, a stinging indictment of the slave trade as told through the eyes of a ten year old African girl held captured aboard a slave ship. “China Lane” tells the story through spoken word and music of a forbidden love affair between a Chinese laundry proprietor and a freed slave. “Midnight Train to Munich” deals with the current immigration crisis in Europe and features a family of Albanian refugees escaping into Germany aboard a train in search for a better life. Additional excerpts will be performed.
Music will color the evening with Idris Ackamoor’s remarkable tenor and alto sax playing, and the bass and percussion groove of the Pyramids.
Sponsored by Pitt Arts and co-sponsored by: The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, The Office of Diversity and Inclusion, The Department of Africana Studies, Global Studies, and The Department of Music.
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Admission is Free to the Public.
Location and Address
Charity Randall Theatre
4301 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213