*Diehn Concert Series: Within Our Gates
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- Date/Time
- 09/21/2015 8:00 PM EST - 10:00 PM EST
- Location
- Diehn Center for the Performing Arts - Chandler Recital Hall
- Fee
- $10 Student, $15 General
- Description
- Birth of an Answer celebrates 100 years of African American creative and critical responses to D.W.
Griffith's film, "Birth of a Nation" (1915).
The evening features a screening of African American pioneer filmmaker Oscar Micheaux's silent classic, "Within Our Gates" (1919), accompanied by a live performance of a contemporary film score composed by Adolphus Hailstork that places past and present in conversation with one another. The score will be performed by The Harlem Quartet and guests and the I. Sherman Greene Chorale under the direction of conductor Michael Morgan.
The event also features a discussion with Adolphus Hailstork and Derrick Borte following the screening of "Within our Gates." Birth of an Answer is made possible through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts; gifts from the Hampton Roads Community Foundation's Lewis Family Fund and ODU's Town-n-Gown; support from Old Dominion University's Institute for the Humanities, Department of Communication and Theatre Arts, President's Lecture Series, Film Festival Fund, and the F. Ludwig Diehn Concert Series Fund.
Birth of an Answer is co-sponsored by Old Dominion University, the City of Norfolk, the Crispus Attucks Cultural Center, the Norfolk Chamber Consort, the Virginia Arts Festival, and WHRO Public Media.
To learn more about the event and its performers, please visit Birth of an Answer or like us on Facebook.
For more information about tickets, please call the ODU Arts and Letters Box Office at (757) 683-5305.
This event is part of Birth of an Answer, a special collaboration with the Crispus Attucks Cultural Center, Old Dominion University, Hampton, Norfolk, Regent University, Virginia Wesleyan College, The F. Ludwig Diehn Concert Series, The Norfolk Chamber Consort, The I. Sherman Greene Chorale, WHRO/WHRV, and the City of Norfolk.
*Recital Attendance Credit - Bluecard Event
