City of Toronto All Events http://ift.tt/1CK3sUG Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (and of the work itself), The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, under the direction of Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, will perform Michael Tippett's secular cantata "A Child of Our Time". Inspired by the events of Kristallnacht, Tippett saw the interconnection between Black and Jewish communities as the result of oppression. As a compliment to this significant repertoire, the concert will begin with readings from American poet, Langston Hughes' Let Us Remember - a six poem cycle that was commissioned in 1964 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. African spirituals will be interpolated as song bridges between the poems.
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