The Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) will present a free performance of Atlantic Connections, a jazz performance led by Yosvany Terry, senior lecturer on music at Harvard, and mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran. Performance is free and open to all.
This jazz performance was inspired by poets from the African diaspora, including Maya Angelou. Atlantic Connections will explore the themes of land, homeland, motherhood, running, love, loss, distance, diasporic geographies, and water as a spiritual connecting element.
More information via the Harvard Gazette
Additional performers include:
Fabian Almazán, a 2020 recipient of an honorarium from HUCA and a graduate student in creative practice and critical inquiry
Yunior Terry, Assistant Professor of Music, New York University
David Virelles, jazz musician
A second free performance of Atlantic Connections will take place on Friday, September 16, 2022 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm at the Harvard Art Museum located at 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge.
Yosvany Terry is Harvard University Senior Lecturer and Director of Jazz Ensembles in the Department of Music. Yosvany Terry traces his family’s roots to the kingdom of Dahomey or present-day Benin. After being taken to work in Haiti and Jamaica, his relatives eventually were able to immigrate to Cuba in roughly 1910. As a child, Yosvany embraced the African musical and religious traditions that were a fundamental and integral part of his home life. Since arriving In New York City in 1999, Yosvony Terry “has helped redefine Latin Jazz as a complex new idiom.” – The New York Times.
Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo-soprano, is a multi-dimensional artist performing and composing between the genres of Opera, Art, Theater, and Jazz. Ms. Moran made her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, starring as Bess on the celebrated 20-city American tour. Ms. Moran’s artist residencies include Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, MASSMoCA, and National Sawdust center for original music. “Moran finds the truth of the character in her magnificent voice,” – Los Angeles Times.
Images: Alicia Hall Moran (Photo: Thais Aquino) and Yosvany Terry (Photo: Nicola Dracoulis)