Faculty Artist Series: Portraits of Langston

About the event

Tuesday,  February 6 the Scott/Garrison Duo with Rajung Yang will observe African American History month with a performance of two works based on the life and poems of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Composed by Valerie Coleman, the Le Grand Duc Mambo illustrates a jazz cabaret club in the red-light district of Montmartre, Paris. Danse Africaine pictures a Harlem jazz club. Music by American composers Eric Mandat, Alec Wilder, Roger Nixon and Robert Brownlow completes the concert program.

Proceeds from ticket sales in the series benefit the School of Music Scholarship Fund. Tickets, on sale one hour before performances in the lobby, cost $10 general admission, $5 senior citizens (55+)and non-WSU students and free for WSU students with ID.