Ruth Leon recommends… Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration – Cal Performances

Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration – Cal Performances
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April 7 – 13

This jazz event from husband and wife duo Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran  explores the Great Migration of six million Black Americans from the rural South to northern cities, the West, and beyond.

The husband and wife duo—he a MacArthur Fellow and acclaimed jazz composer and pianist, she a celebrated classical vocalist and composer—trace their family histories through the music that accompanied these brave travellers throughout the 20th century, from Harlem Renaissance-era jazz tunes, gospel hymns, bebop standards, and Broadway show tunes, to classical and chamber music and the Morans’ own compositions. The programme even passes through California, where both families put down roots and where Alicia Hall Moran was born.

Two Wings also references influential texts by Black authors, historians, and poets.

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