The Black Chicago Renaissance Women: Lives and Legacies in Music | Dr. Samantha Ege

Held on International Women's Day 2021, Part of the Humanities
Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future,
Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities - in collaboration
with Lincoln College, Oxford. Talk and Performance from Dr Samantha
Ege, Lincoln College Oxford. In celebration of International
Women’s Day (8 March 2021), Dr. Samantha Ege presents an hour-long
lecture-recital. Therein, she traces the lives and legacies of
Black women composers in Chicago. The music of Florence B. Price,
Nora Douglas Holt, Margaret Bonds, and Betty Jackson King
represents the foundations of a vibrant creative network. Dr. Ege
contextualises this in the transformative movement of the Negro
Renaissance. Programme: Florence B. Price (1887-1953) Fantasie
Nègre No. 2 in G minor (1932) Fantasie Nègre No. 3 in F minor
(1932) Nora Douglas Holt (c.1885-1974) Negro Dance (1921) Betty
Jackson King (1928-1994) Four Seasonal Sketches (1955) I. Spring
Intermezzo II. Summer Interlude III. Autumn Dance IV. Winter
Holiday Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) Spiritual Suite (1967) I. Valley
of the Bones II. The Bells III. Troubled Water Dr. Samantha Ege is
Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at Lincoln College. Her
research focuses on Florence B. Price and the network of female
practitioners in the age of the Black Chicago Renaissance. She
released the album Four Women: Music for Solo Piano by Price,
Kaprálová, Bilsland and Bonds with Wave Theory Records in 2018. Dr.
Ege's new album Fantasie Nègre: The Piano Music of Florence Price
will be released digitally on the LORELT label on Monday 8 March to
coincide with the celebration of International Women's Day. This
event is kindly supported by Lincoln College, Oxford, Lord Crewe’s
Charity and the Zilkha Trust.