Concert: Sunlight I Cannot See
Join us for this concert!
The concert "Sunlight I Cannot See" combines music and poetry from diverse sources to weave a journey from desolation and lamentation to intimations of hope, healing and change. The performance will feature Elizabeth Byrum Linnartz, soprano; Timothy Holley, cello; and Mary Hamilton, piano. Music by Anthony Kelley, Betty Roe, Zenobia Powell Perry, Tui St. George Tucker, Marvin Curtis, Mary K. Jackson, Schubert, Bach and Bernstein will be performed.
Elizabeth Byrum Linnartz, soprano, has been a lecturer in voice at Duke University since 2004, currently serving as the coordinator of the Voice Area. She has taught a wide range of classes while at Duke, including Vocal Diction, Opera and Broadway, and Interpretation and Performance. In addition to her work in the Music Department, she also taught for the Duke Divinity School a course on music in worship, served as a guest lecturer in the Linguistics course Language, Music, and Dementia, and presented recitals for the Duke Departments of German Studies and Slavic and Eurasian Studies. Linnartz holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance and a Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from UNC Greensboro School of Music, as well as a B. A. in Music from Duke University.
Timothy Holley is an associate professor of music at North Carolina Central University. An alumnus of Baldwin Wallace University and the University of Michigan, he has collaborated with the Mallarmé Chamber Players and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra since 1997. Dr. Holley has given lectures on the aesthetic diversities of African-American concert music, as exemplified by the influence of the Negro spiritual on the cello music of African-American composers, the poetry of Langston Hughes and its influence on the music of Howard Swanson. He has made two cello transcriptions of works by William Grant Still and contributed encyclopedia entries on the Negro String Quartet and the Symphony of the New World. In 2013, he started an online Facebook group called "The African American Cello History Collective" and also maintains a companion blogsite titled "A View from the Scroll" (www.viewedscroll.blogspot.com).
Mary Hamilton earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Florida State University in piano performance and a master's degree in piano performance from Auburn University. She accompanies the Duke Chorale and previously accompanied the Carolina Choir/Chamber Singers and served as director of music at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Durham for 17 years
Location: Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, East Campus. Accessible parking is located at the circle parking area between East Duke and White Lecture Hall.
Free admission. No tickets or reservations needed.
An accessible path of travel leads from the parking area to the side elevator entrance into White Lecture Hall (on the left of the East Duke Building). The accessible pathway into East Duke is available by taking the White Lecture Hall elevator to the second floor and crossing the walkway into East Duke. There is an automatic door opener with remote control capability at the second-floor entrance.
In addition to accessible restrooms in the White Lecture Hall, accessible restrooms are also located in East Duke Building, near room 101.