In late August we posted about Dave Burrell’s fourth composition for the Rosenbach, which is entitled Portraits of Civil War Heroes and will premier January 19 & 22. To further whet your appetite, Farrar Fitzgerald, our intrepid Sunstein Family Assistant Director of Education, has filmed a couple of short interviews with Dave about his upcoming work. In the videos he talks about two parts of the new composition– John Brown: Life and John Brown: Death. The sound is a bit echoey from filming in the library (all those hard bookcases), but they’re well worth a look.
You can also find the videos linked from Dave’s concerts in the January programs section of our website. To find out more about John Brown and to see some of our John Brown holdings you can check out this blog post from his 150th, back in 2009. We will also have some of our John Brown material, including letters and drawings, in our Civil War Begins exhibit, which will open on December 15th.