Delaware County Symphony Chamber Series Presents

A Celebration of Black History with Sound and Sight

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In honor of Black History Month, the Chamber Series of Delaware County Symphony is presenting a combination of theatrical performance with classical string quartet music on Sunday, February 15 at 3:00 PM. Historical Interpreter and Educator, Dr. Daisy Nelson-Century will bring Harriet Tubman to life with accompanying music by pioneering African American composer, Florence Price.

 

The program unfolds in five theatrical acts; each paired with one movement from Price’s Five Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet. Through this unique blend of storytelling and music, audiences will experience the extraordinary courage of Harriet Tubman- born into slavery in Maryland, later a Union spy during the Civil War, and the heroic conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped free more than seventy enslaved people.

 

Florence Price (1887–1953) was an American composer, pianist, organist, and educator whose work has gained renewed recognition in recent years. Educated at the New England Conservatory of Music and based in Chicago from 1927 onward, Price composed Five Folksongs in Counterpoint in 1950. The work features the beloved folksongs; Calvary, Clementine, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, Shortnin’ Bread, and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.

 

A Celebration of Black History with Sound and Sight will be presented on February 15 at 3:00 PM in Neumann University's Meagher Theatre. Tickets for the concert may be purchased here.