PostClassical featuring PostClassical Ensemble in a special 2019 edition honoring Black History Month. Bass-baritone Kevin Deas is the soloist for this program, called Deep River: The Art of the Spiritual, featuring the music of Harry Burleigh, Nathanial Dett, William Dawson and others. This webcast contains 20+ minutes of material not heard in the broadcast! See https://www.wwfm.org/post/postclassical-feb-15-deep-river
DEEP RIVER-The ART of the SPIRITUAL – academic discussion of Negro spirituals as art songs including comments and vocal performances by baritone Kevin Deas. Bass Baritone Kevin Deas volunteered performances of two opera arias during MusicUNTOLD Nov. 21, 2015 concert at Constitution Hall (Washington DC) celebrating the ‘150th Anniversary 13th Amendment to US Constitution…
October 2019 was the 50th anniversary of Dave Brubeck’s THE GATES of JUSTICE. See https://africlassical.blogspot.com/2019/10/john-malveaux-50th-anniversary-of.html. African American baritone Kevin Deas was one of two soloists in THE GATES of JUSTICE and a later soloist during 2015 MusicUNTOLD concert celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. See https://africlassical.blogspot.com/2019/10/john-malveaux-kevin-deas-sang-during.html. In a recent statement, 130 Jewish organizations…
Bass Baritone Kevin Deas volunteered a performance of two opera arias during the Nov. 21, 2015 concert at Constitution Hall-150th Anniversary 13th Amendment to US Constitution – ABOLISHMENT OF SLAVERY. Kevin Deas sang: I Made Me A Man from Adolphus Hailstork opera Rise for Freedom: The John P Parker Story; No Man’s Possession from Ulysses…
Open the YouTube playlist below to see seven performances from the 150th Anniversary 13th Amendment US Constitution-Abolition of Slavery CONCERT, held at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on November 21, 2023. The 150th Anniversary 13th Amendment US Constitution-Abolition of Slavery CONCERT is FOR the People, BY the People, and OF the People.…