Changing the game on the concert stage-please see world premiere of composer Nkeiru Okoye “Black Bottom” by the Detroit Symphony conducted by Maestro Thomas Wilkins. The composition for full orchestra and four African American solo voices was developed as from a nearly one-year-long study of a photographic exhibit of Black Bottom Street (predominantly Black neighborhood in Detroit demolished for redevelopment in the early 1960’s). See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11xUjzA1Ljc
I personally met and befriended Nkeiru Okoye in New York at the 2014 world premiere of her opera Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom. More later
