Resonant Song: multi-cultural matinee + conversation

On October 4, experience the galloping, “Listen up!” pow of Celebrate the capital city’s deep well of creativity, as Jackson soprano DeAnna Tisdale Johnson lends her stunning voice to Margaret Walker’s best-loved poems in three song-settings by Crafton Beck. Honor the Mississippi premiere of Carlos Simon’s powerful 2023 Grammy-nominated, multi-genre Requiem for the Enslaved – an original composition infused with African American spirituals and Catholic liturgical melodies – then stay for conversation and learn more.

This is a FREE concert open to all.

Learn more: https://msorchestra.com/event/chamber-2-resonant-song/

Concert program:
Crafton Beck, Three Songs on Poems by Margaret Walker -Deanna Tisdale Johnson, soprano
Carlos Simon, Requiem for the Enslaved

Chamber Concert Series presented by Keesler Federal Credit Union

Concert sponsored by Meyer & Genevieve Falk Endowment Fund for Culture and Arts at the Community Foundation for Mississippi

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