MASQ Negro Spiritual Renaissance Project
The Marian Anderson String Quartet
Presents
“Songs of the Middle Passage”
For Presenters:
The Marian Anderson String Quartet invites Concert Presenters to engage the Marian Anderson String Quartet’s wonderfully rich and educational concert for your next concert season!
Songs of the Middle Passage is inspired by the cultural traditions of the Middle Passage, which was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World. The program is a catalyst promoting music of and dedicated to the African Diaspora. Within this program the MASQ performs new music and multimedia pieces as well as classic works from the 17th and 18th century that have yet to be performed on the concert stage. The Negro Spiritual Project is based on the concept that the audiences of the world will experience this old tradition in a new form driven by the Marian Anderson String Quartet. The other exciting aspect we believe is that every performance we expose the world to another established or emerging composer as well as a spiritual with which the audience may be unfamiliar.
View/Download the Presenters Proposal [PDF]
For Composers:
What is the Marian Anderson String Quartet Negro Spiritual Renaissance Project?
MASQNSRP is the nucleus of the Songs of the Middle Passage which will invite composers to participate in what we feel is a very important and exciting legacy for music. In general will bring light to four ideas, the depth of the American Negro Spiritual, Marian Anderson’s legacy, the beauty of the string quartet and the breadth of great composers of this era. This project fits directly into the quartet’s mission to create and diverse audiences in the field of classical music.