home.social

#symsat — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #symsat, aggregated by home.social.

  1. “Credo” (youtu.be/NInltwWFL74?si=gxC_TN) is a 7-part cantata written in 1967 set to the 1904 W. E. B. Du Bois' prose poem of the same name. It’s notable for its blending of Western classical and N*gro Spiritual traditions. Each of the movements in “Credo” begins with a statement of belief and then goes on to center black historical figures and settings in a way that marries both ancestry with modern times (extra images added for alttext)
    #SymSat #MargaretBonds #BlackHistoryMonth #WEBDuBois