“Of Ebony Embers” with The Core Ensemble, a one-actor and three-musician performance that brings to life the Harlem Renaissance, will showcase its work at noon Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 at the Leo J Welder Center for the Performing Arts, 214 N Main Street in Victoria. This chamber music theatre work for actor and trio (cello, piano and percussion) celebrates the lives of the great African-American poets, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay, as seen through the eyes of the great muralist and painter Aaron Douglas. The text is by Akin Babatunde. The musical score includes works by jazz giants Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus as well as concert music by Jeffrey Mumford and George Walker.

Admission is free.

 

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