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South Side Impresarios: A Lecture and Recital

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Northwestern Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
Location
Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Date
Apr 9, 2025   5:00 pm  
Speaker
Samantha Ege
Cost
Free
Registration
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A concert pianist and a leading scholar and interpreter of the music of Florence Price, Samantha Ege is the author of a new book, South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene. South Side Impresarios was awarded the 2024 Society for American Music H. Earle Johnson Publication Subvention Award. Ege gave the world premiere of Florence Price’s complete Fantasie nègre set at the 2021 London Festival of American Music, and in 2018, she made her international lecture-recital debut at Chicago’s Symphony Center with “A Celebration of Women in Music: Composing the Black Chicago Renaissance.” Ege has written for the New York TimesThe Guardian, and Gramophone, and her storytelling surrounding Black women composers has extended to two BBC Radio 3 documentaries. 

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