Two performances on campus this week will feature the music Robert Nathaniel
Dett. The performances are part of the 125th Anniversary and Celebration of
the distinguished American composer.

 

On Thursday afternoon, October 11, Charles Pettaway, Jr., will present a
lecture/performance on American piano music. In addition to the In the
Bottoms Suite for Piano by Dett, Mr. Pettaway will perform music of
Gottschalk and Gershwin. The fifty minute presentation begin at 1:40 PM, in
the Roland Hayes Concert Hall. Take a late lunch and join us.

 

On Friday evening, October 12, University Chamber Singers, the Women's
Chorus and Men's Chorus will be joined by the Chattanooga Choral Society,
and the Wendell P. Whalum Community Chorus of Atlanta, in a festival of
choral music by Dett. The program begins at 8:00 PM in the Roland Hayes
Concert Hall. 

 

The celebration will have an opening reception on Wednesday evening, 5:30 to
6:30 in the atrium of the Chattanooga African American Museum. The reception
will be in honor of Leon Bates who will be appearing with the Chattanooga
Symphony this week performing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Ellington's A
NEW WOLRD A-coming.

 

The celebration project, presented by the Chattanooga Choral Society in
cooperation with the Department of Music and the Chattanooga African
American Museum, is sponsored in part by grants from Tennessee Arts
Commission, the Southern Arts Federations, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and
Holmberg Professorship in American Music. 

 


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