Native American Inspirations: From Spillville to Pine Ridge

Phone: (202) 537-6200
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Name: Native American Inspirations: From Spillville to Pine Ridge
Start: Wed, October 16, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Location: The Washington National Cathedral

Wed, October 16, 2019 – 7:30 pm

In this unprecedented 125-year overview of music inspired by the Native American experience, our topic is the controversial relationship between Native America and American identity — then and now.

Our participants include:

The Lakota Music Project of the South Dakota Symphony, in its first trip east.
Eminent Native American performers from South Dakota’s Pine Ridge and Sisseton reservations: flutist Bryan Akipa and singer Emmanuel Black Bear, also Oglala Lakota elder Chris Eagle Hawk.

We also exhume the “Indianists” movement in music —an attempt to use Native American music and lore to fashion a musical signature for all Americans. Its practitioners included the great Czech composer Antonin Dvorák, who in Spillville, Iowa, spent a month with Native American musicians; and Arthur Farwell, who as the leading Indianist undertook astounding explorations of Native American culture in parallel Bartok’s excavations of folk culture in Hungary.

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