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SCRANTON — Marywood University will host the internationally renowned chamber music theatre Core Ensemble, performing “Ain’t I a Woman!” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 17 in the Sette LaVerghetta Center for Performing Arts on the university campus. The event is free.
Chamber music theatre is a unique performance format developed by the Core Ensemble that features a marriage of theatrical narrative to chamber music performance. Actress Christy Hall portrays multiple characters while interacting with the onstage musical trio of cello, piano, and percussion.
“Ain’t I a Woman!” celebrates the life and times of four powerful African American women: renowned novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, ex-slave and fiery abolitionist Sojourner Truth, exuberant folk artist Clementine Hunter and fervent civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer. The musical score is drawn from the poignant spirituals and blues of the Deep South, the urban vitality of the Jazz Age and contemporary concert music by African Americans.
Since 1993, the Core Ensemble toured in every region of the United States and internationally to Australia, England, Russia, Ukraine and the British Virgin Islands. The group has received international attention as a cutting edge contributor to the arts and humanities.