Apollo Chamber Players continues its season of spotlighting silenced voices with Revised, a genre-fusing statement on poetry, peace, censorship and Black revisionism this weekend.
, a genre-fusing statement on poetry, peace, censorship and Black revisionism. The concert features the world premiere of “Revise?” by award-winning poet, activist and educator Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton and Emmy-winning composer Jasmine Barnes , with members of Houston Ebony Opera Guild, The Philip Hall Singers and Houston Chamber Choir on February 17 and 18.
“In our vernacular, we usually use ‘revise’ as a verb in the context of improvement,” said Matthew Detrick, Apollo Chamber Players' founder and artistic director. “For the purposes of this program, we're exploring revision and revisionism as something harmful and destructive. Revision is a form of censorship, particularly in the Black community, both past and present. That will be front and center of what we're exploring for this concert.
“She and I are the only Black female librettist and composer team that we know of,” Mouton said. “We don't know anyone else. It doesn't mean there isn't another one, but we have not found one yet.” “Part of Apollo Chamber Players’ mission is to represent Houston,” Detrick said. “Anything we can do to keep that conversation going is embedded in our mission. We've been working with a diversity of composers since the beginning of the organization. Diversity has been part and parcel of our DNA.”“Us being two black women in contemporary classical music, that is not a common thing,” she said. “As we talk about this idea of revising, we're also revising the canon.
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