Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch, 10 Grand Army Plz, NY, 11238

Quest is pianist Chelsea Randall’s interdisciplinary commissioning project celebrating the potent and timely work of trailblazing Black Arts Movement poets and the legacy of her great uncle, the poet and editor Dudley Randall, through the lens of new piano music. Presented as part of Chelsea’s initiative the<a href="https://www.americanmavericksproject.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <a href="https://www.americanmavericksproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">American Mavericks Project</a>&nbsp;(AMP), which is dedicated to piano music by Black American composers, she will premiere six new commissions for solo piano by esteemed composers Carolyn Yarnell, Adolphus Hailstork, Joyce Solomon Moorman, Anthony R. Green, Regina Harris Baiocchi and Jeremiah Evans, inspired by the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Naomi Long Madgett and Dudley Randall, who platformed these poets via his Detroit-based Broadside Press. Melba Joyce Boyd, Michigan’s Poet Laureate and Dudley Randall’s biographer, will recite the poems which inspired the commissioned works alongside Chelsea’s performances. Quest is dedicated to the memory of Nikki Giovanni.&nbsp;Free. Registration required.

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American Mavericks Project Vl. 1: Quest

JAN

25

4:00 PM

Park Slope, NY