Narrative of a Slave Woman: Songs of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

FEATURING

LaToya Lain, soprano

PROGRAM

A powerful presentation by soprano LaToya Lain that examines the issue of slavery by combining musical performance with spoken narrative accounts. About the project, Lain says, “In 2003, HBO presented a documentary entitled ‘Unchained Memories’ about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s’ Federal Writers’ Project. As I read the print version of these slave narratives and later watched the documentary, I began to see how the stories of these men and women are told through the Negro Spirituals. I saw the direct relationship of some of my favorite spirituals and the life stories of remarkable slave women, whose names, if not for these narratives, we would have never known. I was inspired to take these narratives and combine them with concert arranged Negro Spirituals to tell the story of one former slave woman through song.”

PARKING

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