Castle of our Skins (POSTPONED)

"For Black People"

Due to an artist testing positive for COVID-19, the in-person performance by Castle of our Skins scheduled for Saturday, April 23, 2022 at Arlington Street Church and the scheduled digital stream are canceled. The performance will be rescheduled for a later date.

Our 2022 Solo(s) Together project concludes with a concert featuring a Boston ensemble that's making news nationally and a widely-acclaimed composer and musician with local ties. A quartet from Boston's Castle of our Skins artist collective -- a group of artists of all kinds dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music -- performs contemporary works to include Music for Black People, No. 1 “Relentless” for four instrumentalists by Daniel Bernard Roumain, with short solos for each  performers and a conclusion that brings all the performers together.  

Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a prolific and endlessly collaborative composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR has worked with artists from Philip Glass to Bill T. Jones to Lady Gaga; appeared on NPR, American Idol, and ESPN; and has collaborated with the Sydney Opera House and the City of Burlington, Vermont. Acclaimed as a violinist and activist, DBR’s career spans more than two decades, earning commissions by venerable artists and institutions worldwide. He recently composed the music for Jamila Wignot's feature documentary Ailey, and his music can be experienced this season in The Just and the Blind, his collaborative multimedia exploration of Black fatherhood and Black boyhood in an age of mass incarceration with spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. 

PROGRAM  - For Black People

Tania León                               Oh Yemanja
Andre Myers                            Falling Skyward
Zenobia Powell Perry             The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah 
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson   “Calvary Ostinato” from Black Folksongs and Lamentations
Daniel Bernard Roumain        Music for Black People, No. 1 “Relentless”
                                                     (world premiere; Solo(s) Together)   
Undine Smith Moore               Afro-American Suite 

 
Composer note:

Music for Black People, No. 1 – Relentless is just that: music for people who are Black.  If you’re not Black, you can, of course, still listen to this music but you might not hear it.  If that offends you, you might ask yourself why.  Power and peace to Black people!

 
This event is co-hosted by Ágora Cultural Architects and Celebrity Series of Boston Neighborhood Arts 

Funded in part by the New England States Touring Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

This performance is made possible in part by support from Celebrity Series' LIVE PERFORMANCE! Arts for All Innovation Funds.

Support for this performance is provided by these generous Neighborhood Arts funders.