This is a repeating eventfebruary 11, 2018 10:00 am
Jazz and the Sacred
18feb10:00 am11:00 amJazz and the SacredA talk by Robert G. O'Meally
Event Details
Duke Ellington’s Stained Glass Dimension: “Black and Tan Fantasy”
Event Details
Duke Ellington’s Stained Glass Dimension:
“Black and Tan Fantasy”
The theme of this lecture series is that jazz music (and perhaps all art) offers an invitation for spiritual awareness and reflection. Focusing on Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Romare Bearden, we will explore their work’s presentations of spirituality as a sixth or seventh sense (the other extra sense is movement). In quite different ways, each of them was ever in search of this vital and vibrant “stained-glass dimension,” and of fresh new ways to express it. How might such a dimension help light our way through these deeply shadowed political times? How might it suggest a program for action in the world of here and now? The three talks will be entitled “Duke Ellington’s Black and Tan Fantasy,” “Billie Holiday and the Ecstasy of Influence,” and “Jazz Painter Romare Bearden’s Stained Glass Dimension.”
JAZZ AND THE SACRED: a series of three talks by Robert G. O’Meally on three successive Sundays (Feb. 4, 11, 18, 2018), 10 am
All Souls Unitarian Church
1157 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10075
For more information about this event series, please visit
http://www.allsoulsnyc.org/site/c.atJQL8NRJqL8H/b.6216933/k.BDF5/Home.htm
Time
(Sunday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Unitarian Church of All Souls