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Join our MU School of Music Convocation featuring Dr. Samantha Ege give a talk: "In Search of Nora Douglas Holt: Missouri Beginnings" in Whitmore Recital Hall at 3pm on April 2nd. Abstract: Nora Douglas Holt remade the world in her own image, radiating and relishing Black women’s ingenuity in all that she touched. Composer, philosopher, Jazz-Age icon, Harlem Renaissance muse, social activist, and pleasure seeker: Holt was all these things and more. In this talk, musicologist and pianist Samantha Ege traces the multifaceted musical socialite's Missouri beginnings.
Bio: Samantha Ege is the author of South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price. She wrote about Nora Holt for the New York Times in an article titled "The Curious Case of a Shape Shifter of the Jazz Age." For her latest recording project, she performs as the soloist on Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto and Orchestral Works with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Whitmore Recital Hall, 505 Hitt St,Columbia, Missouri, United States
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