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October 17 – 24, 2020 // UMS Digital Presentation

A Conversation with Kira Thurman

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Kira Thurman, U-M Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literature and author of the forthcoming book Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, is a classically-trained pianist who grew up in Vienna. She gives an overview of all of the works featured on the Takács Quartet Concert program, highlighting composers Florence Price and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and talks with Takács Quartet violinist Harumi Rhodes about some of the challenges of obtaining scores and critical editions of works by Black composers.

This conversation will be broadcast over Facebook Live on Monday, October 19 at 7:30 pm.

October 17 – 24, 2020
UMS Digital Presentation

A Conversation with Kira Thurman

Digital Event
Events
Performance
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Free On Demand starting 10/17

Kira Thurman, U-M Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literature and author of the forthcoming book Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, is a classically-trained pianist who grew up in Vienna. She gives an overview of all of the works featured on the Takács Quartet Concert program, highlighting composers Florence Price and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and talks with Takács Quartet violinist Harumi Rhodes about some of the challenges of obtaining scores and critical editions of works by Black composers.

This conversation will be broadcast over Facebook Live on Monday, October 19 at 7:30 pm.

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