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January 20, 2016
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
An award-winning chamber trio, ‘Of Ebony Embers,’ perform
the music of great African American composers. The group
will be featured during a noon music theater concert, Mon-
day, Feb. 1 at Clackamas Community College.
Music of Harlem
Celebrated
Jazz greats Duke Ellington,
Thelonious Monk and Charles
Mingus, as well as composers
Jeffery Mumford and George
Walker, will be featured in
“Of Ebony Embers: Vignettes
of the Harlem Renaissance,”
a free music theater concert,
Monday, Feb. 1 at Clackamas
Community College.
The performance examines
the lives of three legendary
black poets from New York:
Langston Hughes, Countee
Cullen and Claude McKay, as
seen through the eyes of the
great painter and muralist Aar-
on Douglas.
Akin Babatunde is the play-
wright and director. The per-
formance takes place in the
Gregory Forum at CCC’s Ore-
gon City Campus and is open
to public.
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