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Saturday, April 20 at 7:30PM

Conducted by Matthew Kraemer, Music Director

Curated program by Joshua Thompson, ICO Creative Partner-in-Residence

Featured Guests Joshua Thompson, Piano; Kenyetta Dance Company; Jared Thompson, Saxophone; Psywrn Simone, Vocalist; Pamela Ajango, English Horn

This concert is sold out! If you’d like to be added to our waitlist, please click HERE
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Saturday, April 20 at 7:30PM

Conducted by Matthew Kraemer, Music Director

Curated program by Joshua Thompson, ICO Creative Partner-in-Residence

Featured Guests Joshua Thompson, Piano; Kenyetta Dance Company; Jared Thompson, Saxophone; Psywrn Simone, Vocalist; Pamela Ajango, English Horn

Curated by ICO Creative Partner-in-Residence, Joshua Thompson, “Black Keys,” weaves together dance, powerhouse vocals, and world-class artistry and featuring fellow artists Psywrn Simone, Kenyetta Dance Co., and Jared Thompson. The repertoire includes masterpieces composed by Black contributors in classical music that span over three centuries: William Grant Still, Joseph Bologne, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Harry Burleigh and Margaret Bonds.

Kenyetta Dance Co. is presented with support from Frost Brown Todd

This concert is sold out! If you’d like to be added to our waitlist, please click HERE.

Students/Children Free with reserved ticket! Call or Email office to reserve at 317-940-9607 info@icomusic.org.

Young Professionals (40 and under) tickets $20. Call or email office to redeem.

Repertoire:

Coleridge-Taylor           Petite Suite de Concert           

Ulysses Kay                    Pieta  

                               Pamela Ajango, English Horn

Still                                   Darker America

Still                                   “Out of Silence” from Seven Traceries

Ellington                          “Spring” from The River

Still                                   “Africa” Land of Romance

Chevalier                        Symphony in D major

Still                                   Spiritual “A Deserted Plantation”

Burleigh                          “The Frolic” from The Southland

Simone                            Four Women

                         Psywrn Simone

Bonds/Hughes              Dream Variations

Ellington                          Single Petal of a Rose

Ellington                         MLK, Movement III from “Three Black Kings”

                    Jared Thompson, Saxophone

Joshua Thompson, music sociologist, ICO creative partner, melanated moments
Joshua Thompson, Curator, Pianist, ICO Creative Partner-in-Residence
Presented by:
kenyetta, dance, african dance, african aesthetic
Kenyetta Dance Company
Presented by:
ashlee basking, psywrn simone vocal artist
Psywrn Simone
Presented by:
Jared Thompson, saxophone, guest artist
Jared Thompson, Saxophone
Pam Ajango, oboe, ICO musician
Pamela Ajango, English Horn
Devon Ginn, Narrator for Black Keys
Devon Ginn, Narrator