Name: Opening Weekend Forward Into Light
Start: 2023-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

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Princeton Festival

Conductor

Rossen Milanov

Singer

Steven Banks

Saxophone

Orchestra

Princeton Symphony Orchestra

Opening Weekend Forward Into Light

Princeton

United States

Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

Opening Weekend Forward Into Light: Forward Into Light Kirkland Snider (+2 More)

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Forward Into Light

Saxophone Concerto

Negro Folk Symphony

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Classical music is relevant and meaningful to every member of today's society. Women and people of color have been composing and performing this music for hundreds of years, but you would never know by looking at the current landscape of the field. Watch this talk to learn how diversity and inclusion will allow the music we love to affect more lives than you could ever imagine. Classical saxophonist Steven Banks has been described as “a breathtaking performer” by the Classical Voice of North Carolina. He is a graduate teaching assistant in the Bienen School of Music. Steven performs nationwide as a soloist and as the baritone saxophonist of the award-winning Kenari Quartet. Steven is passionate about raising awareness for diversity in classical music and empowering minorities to pursue the arts. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Into the Canon: Equity in Classical Music | Steven Banks | TEDxNorthwesternU

Key Notes Musical notes

Saxophonist Steven Banks is winner of the prestigious 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Forward Into Light was inspired by the American women suffragists and is a meditation on perseverance, bravery, and alliance. 
William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony was premiered in 1934 by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was one of the first full-length works by a black composer to be performed by a major US orchestra.

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Opening Weekend Forward Into Light by Kirkland Snider, Tomasi, H., Dawson, William L., Sun 10 Sep 2023, From (2023/2023), Conductor Rossen Milanov, Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, Princeton, United States

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