The Gold Coast Chamber Players present the fourth of a five-concert series,
Cultural Crossroads, on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at 7:30 pm in the Don Tatzin Community Hall
at the Lafayette Library, 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. in Lafayette, CA. A pre-concert interview with
Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai and John-Carlos Perea, Ph.D. begins at 7 pm. This live
concert will be recorded and all ticket holders will have the option to watch the concert virtually
beginning on May 17. Please check the website for updated Health & Safety guidelines.
Cultural Crossroads explores the Black and Indigenous influences on Dvořák while in America
and features the world’s premier Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai, the Alexander String
Quartet, soprano Michele Kennedy, and violist Pamela Freund-Striplen. Dvořák’s famous
assertion that “in the Negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and
noble school of music” offers an inspiring springboard for the concert. Cultural Crossroads
adds to the growing national conversation about race and offers relevant musical links to the
past and hope for the future.
The program includes Dvořák’s String Quintet, op. 97 and the Lento from his String Quartet,
op. 96 both nicknamed “American.” Woven between these iconic chamber music pieces are
original works by R. Carlos Nakai, Clan of the Mists, Butterflies Dancing, and Honoring
Song, written for the Gold Coast Chamber Players, as well as Mr. Nakai’s arrangement of
Amazing Grace. Carrying forward Dvořák’s prophecy are two songs by African American
composer Florence Price, Sunset and Night as well as some African American Spirituals that
influenced Dvořák, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, By an’ By, and My Lord What a Morning. The
pièce de résistance of the program is an arrangement for the entire ensemble of Goin’ Home
taken from Dvořák’s New World Symphony.
TICKETS: $15-45
Tickets online:https://www.gccpmusic.com/reimagined
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CONTACT Pamela Freund-Striplen (925) 283-3728; Gold Coast website
