Music: A Force for Mending
NEWorks is pleased to have co-curated a 2015-2016 performance series with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts exploring the themes of racial reconciliation, social justice, and equality. Here are a few programmatic highlights.
Saturday, November 14 through Sunday, November 22, 2015
Appommatox
To mark 50 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act and 150 years since the end of the Civil War, WNO presents the world premiere revised version of Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton's acclaimed opera featuring a brand-new second act. Bass Soloman Howard stars as Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr
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Community-wide Spirituals Sing
Curated by Nolan Williams, Jr., Chief Music Editor, African American Heritage Hymnal
WNO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6pm | Grand Foyer | FREE
Voices from choirs and churches all around the region assemble to sing traditional a cappella spirituals under the direction of some of the area's leading choral directors. Click here for more information.
Family Ties
WNO + NSO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 6pm |
The Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage
Featuring the Chong family, the Ottley family, the Leyva family, and the Davies family
Target Family Night holiday concert featuring four diverse musical families ("local von Trapps") performing a diverse repertoire of music ranging from classical and jazz to Hispanic, inspirational and holiday songs.
Conceived and produced by NEWorks Productions
Presented in partnership with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra in support of the NSO Pops holiday concert, The von Trapps & Stephanie J. Block Family Holiday.
Friday, February 12 through Saturday, February 20, 10`6
Lost in the Stars
Two South African families, one Black and one white, are brought together by a tragic murder charge in the age of Apartheid in Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical adaptation of Alan Paton's novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. Bass-baritone Eric Owens stars as Stephen Kumalo.
Cry, the Beloved Country Film Screening & Conversation
WNO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Thursday, February 4, 2016 from 5:30 to 9:30pm |
The Embassy of the Republic of South Africa
NEWorks Productions and the March on Washington Film Festival, in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Washington National Opera, are pleased to present a private screening of Cry, the Beloved Country, the acclaimed 1995 movie adapted from Alan Paton's classic same-titled book. This screening is hosted by His Excellency Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu, Ambassador of South Africa to the United States.
Cry, the Beloved Country: South African Freedom Songs
WNO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Saturday, February 13, 2016 from 6:00pm
The Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage
Conceived & produced by NEWorks Productions