11th Annual Black History Month Celebration

Thursday, February 28, 2019, at 6:30 pm

This is an archived event, not part of the current festival.

The Schomburg Center - Langston Hughes Auditorium

515 Malcolm X Boulevard
(Lenox Ave. & 135th Street)
New York, NY 10037

Adolphus Hailstork

The Harlem Chamber Players will feature two world premieres by the noted African American composer Adolphus Hailstork. Baritone Kenneth Overton, violinists Ashley Horne and Curtis Stewart, violist Amadi Azikiwe, and cellist Wayne Smith will perform works, including Hailstork's "Nobody Know" (with text by Herbert Martin), which commemorates the 400th anniversary of the importation of the first black slaves to America, and his Piano Quintet entitled "Detroit." The concert will conclude with Dvořák's String Quartet in F Major "American."