The Morrison Chamber Music Center of San Francisco State University’s College of Liberal and Creative Arts will present the New York-based THE CORE ENSEMBLE with actress Shinnerrie Jackson Ain’t I A Woman!, a chamber music theatre work for actress and trio (cello, piano & percussion), with a text by Kim Hines, on Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 3:00 PM. The performance will be presented in Knuth Hall in the College of Liberal & Creative Arts.
Since its founding in 1993, THE CORE ENSEMBLE has been acclaimed for the development of a new genre of chamber music theatre works, as well as a long history of commissioning and performing contemporary chamber music. The Core Ensemble maintains a deep commitment to reaching the widest possible range of audiences demographically and geographically, in formats ranging from formal performance to informal lecture and educational residency programs.
Ain’t I A Woman! is a chamber music theatre work for actress and trio (cello, piano & percussion) celebrating the lives and times of four significant African American Women: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist Sojourner Truth, renowned novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, exuberant folk artist Clementine Hunter and fervant civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer. The musical score is drawn from the heartfelt spirituals of the Deep South, the urban exuberance of the Jazz Age and concert music by African American composers including Diane Monroe.