You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate. * A previous version of this text featured Nupol Kiazolu, Activist/Organizer and Miss Liberia USA who unfortunately will no longer be able to join us. The Schomburg Center's Ella Baker Initiative is generously supported by Pivotal Ventures. Panel will be moderated by Jenna Flanagan, host of MetroFocus on THIRTEEN. Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University and Maya Scriven, Student, Artist and former Schomburg Teen Curator. Following the screening, enjoy a panel discussion featuring Sandra Rattley, Executive Producer, Director & Writer Karen Boykin-Towns, Vice Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors Dr.
#UNLADYLIKE2020 AMERICAN MASTERS SERIES#
UNLADYLIKE 2020 is a documentary series profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. (Oscar Levant, George's friend and disciple who appears in both films, is shown at some length.) The music is presented in chronological order and this works very well here.Join the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's Ella Baker Initiative and THIRTEEN for a virtual screening of two short films from American Masters- UNLADYLIKE 2020, profiling Mary Church Terrell (1863- 1954) educator, suffragist, civil rights Activist and co-founder of the NAACP and Charlotta Spears Bass (1888-1969) newspaper editor, civil rights crusader and first African American woman Vice Presidential candidate. Many film excerpts from "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris" are presented though there is an obvious effort to avoid showing Robert Alda as George in the first film. In fact, MTT has made a specialty of the Second Rhapsody, playing and conducting it from the keyboard a la Bernstein. (She died April 2007.) Others include the late Kay Swift, George's "girlfriend" and sometimes collaborator and the two "Michaels", Feinstein and Tilson Thomas both looking rather young here. At age 95, she was, of this writing, still able to clearly express herself even taking part in the recent pledge break for PBS. Many of the usual "musical-documentary gang" are here including Kitty Carlisle Hart, one of the geriatrics wonders of the world. A minor quibble: Morris and Rose Gershwin did not have two older sons named "Ira" and "George" but rather "Israel" and "Jacob" they both changed their names fairly early on. Thomson's contributions to the American opera may be considerable with his two Gertrude Stein collaborations but can, in no way, compete with the infinitely greater Porgy and Bess which is probably the greatest American opera of all time. (His Second Rhapsody has never had the fame of the "Rhapsody in Blue" but is, to my mind, much more satisfying as a concert work.) Mr. While I agree that the "Rhapsody in Blue" is not satisfactory as a "classical" work, it's form is too diffuse and the composer didn't really know what he was doing at this time, I think he made up for it later on and then some. I don't recall his exact remarks but they are to the effect that all of Gershwin's serious music, consists merely of strung-together show-tunes. It is interesting that Virgil Thomson's negative remarks are given at some length but these are expressions of envy in my opinion. A fine documentary both as a presentation of the composer's life as well as his music including many observations and opinions.
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