Echoes of Conscience
Echoes of Conscience
Voices of the French resistance
Concert Highlights: The spirit of Josephine Baker with chanteuse Jacqueline Tabor
World Premiere Dance Commission
Darius Milhaud, La Création du Monde
Donald Byrd, Spectrum Dance Theater
Darius Milhaud’s La Création du Monde was inspired by the composer’s trip to Harlem. For this daring ballet work, he drew on a blend of jazz and classical idioms to imagine the creation of the world according to African myths. Few details remain of the original choreography, but Music of Remembrance has commissioned Spectrum Dance Theater’s award-winning Donald Byrd to create a new dance score for this captivating work that evokes the experimental aura of Paris in the 1920s.
Few artists have fused art and activism as powerfully as Josephine Baker, the legendary singer and dancer who escaped racism in America to become an icon of resistance and freedom in France. We feature chanteuse Jacqueline Tabor in a medley of songs that Baker made famous – songs of love, liberty and an unshakable spirit.
Featuring:
Spectrum Dance Theater
2025 David Tonkonogui Memorial Award recipient:
Tom Wang, clarinet
Music of Remembrance Ensemble:
Laura DeLuca, clarinet; Mikhail Shmidt, violin; Elisa Barston, violin;
Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola; Walter Gray, cello; Cristina Valdes, piano
