Native Voices: Karenna - Lay Our Vibration Down
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 · The Cooper Union, The Great Hall, Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, Manhattan · New York
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The Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum presents New York premieres of two short operas by Dawn Avery, a Grammy-nominated cellist-composer of Mohawk descent, with music director Danielle Olana Jagelski. Trials and Tears responds to Benny Andrews's painting of the Trail of Tears; Sacajawea: Women of Many Names follows. A first live performance, free in the Great Hall.
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World-premiere staging of Indigenous opera in Cooper Union's Great Hall, free and open to all.
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