Saturday April 9, 2022Harry Lennix, stage and screen actor (“The Blacklist” “The Matrix Reloaded”), is a co-founder of the new African American Performing Arts Museum in Chicago. In this program, he will talk about this new initiative with Emory music professor Dwight Andrews. Clint Fluker, the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library curator of African American collections, will discuss the Rose Library holdings in African American performing arts.
Harry Lennix is an accomplished film, television, and stage actor. His recent credits include the Warner Bros. movie “Man of Steel,” the CW’s “Emily Owens, M.D.,” Fox’s “Dollhouse,” and HBO’s “Little Britain,” as well as the critically acclaimed series “24.” He made his Broadway debut in August Wilson’s Tony-nominated play, “Radio Golf.” Lennix received critical acclaim and a Golden Satellite Award as Aaron in Julie Taymor’s “Titus” starring Anthony Hopkins. He and Professor Andrews have worked together on Broadway.Dwight Andrews is a composer, musician, and educator who joined the Emory College faculty in 1987, where he is professor of music theory and African American music at Emory. He is senior minister of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Atlanta. Andrews served as music director for the Broadway productions of August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” and “Fences.” He also served as music director for the Broadway revival production of “Ma Rainey” starring Charles S. Dutton and Whoopi Goldberg and collaborated with director Kenny Leon on the Broadway production of “A Raisin in the Sun” starring Sean Combs and Phylicia Rashad.
This program is part of the Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation Series Endowment and is sponsored by the Hightower Fund, the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Oxford College, the Creativity and the Arts Initiative, and the Emory College departments of English, Theater Studies, and Film and Media.
Музыка
Фильмы
ТВ Шоу
Категории видео
