The World Poetry Café Radio Show was honoured to have the wonderful composer Wadada, Leo Smith on the air July 14 with his new string quartet albums. TUM Records releases the first-ever recording of String Quartets Nos. 1-12 from iconic composer, trumpeter and Pulitzer Finalist Wadada Leo Smith, “one of the most influential figures of the postwar black musical avant-garde” (NY Review of Books).
A pinnacle in a career that’s been building to this moment, these twelve string quartets, which were written beginning in 1965, showcase Smith’s powerful and distinctive musical voice. They are performed by RedKoral Quartet (Shalini Vijayan, Mona Tian, Andrew McIntosh and Ashley Walters) as well as featured soloists including Smith, pianist Anthony Davis, harpist Alison Bjorkedal and vocalist Thomas Buckner, among others. “My aspiration was to create a body of music that is expressive and that also explores the African-American experience in the United States of America,” says Smith in the liner notes.
“My music is not a historical account. I intend that my inspiration seeks physiological and cultural reality.” Go to TUM Records or Wadada Leo Smith @ https://wadadaleosmith.com/h Also on the show and cohosting with Ariadne Sawyer, was the amazing Britany Russell, poetess and youth promoter of youth poets from Africa and around the world. Britany has her own show, Britany’s Poetics heard monthly on the World Poetry Café Radio Show and joins us from Jamaica for the last several years.
She has had the great honour of being chosen to the following event:
The National Black Canadians Summit, (powered by the Michelle Jean Foundation) is a major mobilization three days event of sessions, networking and Marketplace. Date of event: National Summit on July 29-31, 2022 in Halifax, Nova Scotia Please contact persons for more details about (all-expense paid) trip for Britney Russel to attend the National summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Roderick Brereton Founder and CEO of UrbanRez Solutions Email: rod@urbanrezsolutions.com World Poetry Radio Show is so excited about hertrip and honour!
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