Millennium Stage presents: Raíces Negras

Members of the Raíces Negras chamber music collective celebrate innovative and prominent American women composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Each work explores an element of nature and the spirits that dwell within, ranging from the Negro spirituals in Undine Smith Moore’s “Afro-American Suite,” the motions and gestures of the beach in Tania León’s “Sands of Time,” a day in the life of the Papua New Guinean rainforest in Elisenda Fábregas’s “Voices of the Rainforest,” or the avant-garde timbral illusions and mythical imagery of Clarice Assad’s world-premiere commission entitled “Flight of the Fairies.” Within these musical works, audiences will discover and enjoy the worldly and otherworldly soundscapes these composers can elicit. Featuring flutist Ceylon Mitchell, cellist Erin Murphy Snedecor, and pianist Elizabeth G. Hill.