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Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends – SOLD OUT!
Apr
26
7:30 PM19:30
40th Anniversary, Music, 2024, WaterWorks

Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends – SOLD OUT!

Pianist, composer, and educator Jason Moran returns to Harlem Stage with a reimagining of Pianos For Duke, a Harlem Stage program dedicated to the music of Duke Ellington, first presented at our previous home Aaron Davis Hall in 1999. Moran performed in the ’99 program, at the time a young up-and-coming pianist, featured alongside superstars of the instrument.

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto
May
3
7:30 PM19:30
40th Anniversary, Music, 2024, WaterWorks

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto

Composer, vocalist, and performing and recording artist Tamar-kali presents concert performance excerpts from The Swann — an opera she is developing about the life and times of William Dorsey Swann, the first known person to identify as a “queen of drag.”

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto
May
4
7:30 PM19:30
40th Anniversary, Music, 2024, WaterWorks

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto

Composer, vocalist, and performing and recording artist Tamar-kali presents concert performance excerpts from The Swann — an opera she is developing about the life and times of William Dorsey Swann, the first known person to identify as a “queen of drag.”

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed
Mar
30
7:30 PM19:30
40th Anniversary, Music, 2024, WaterWorks

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed

Ambrose Akinmusire has made a home at the crossroads of different musical forms and languages, from post-bop and avant-garde jazz to contemporary chamber music and hip-hop to singer-songwriter aesthetics.  He returns to Harlem Stage during its 40th Anniversary Season to present banyan seed.

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed – SOLD OUT!
Mar
29
7:30 PM19:30
40th Anniversary, Music, 2024, WaterWorks

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed – SOLD OUT!

Ambrose Akinmusire has made a home at the crossroads of different musical forms and languages, from post-bop and avant-garde jazz to contemporary chamber music and hip-hop to singer-songwriter aesthetics.  He returns to Harlem Stage during its 40th Anniversary Season to present banyan seed.

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WaterWorks Emerging Artists Showcase – SOLD OUT!
Dec
9
7:30 PM19:30
2023, 40th Anniversary, WaterWorks, Multi-disciplinary, Music, Dance

WaterWorks Emerging Artists Showcase – SOLD OUT!

In this culminating WaterWorks Emerging Artists program work-in-progress showcase, Harlem Stage presents works by the 2023 WaterWorks Emerging Artists cohort: interdisciplinary performing artist and painter Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson; singer/songwriter Hannah Lemmons aka LEMMONS; choreographer and dancer Bobby Morgan; interdisciplinary artist, composer, and pianist Mary Prescott; and trumpeter and composer Kalí Rodríguez-Peña.

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