Contributions Of Black People To Classical Music Subject of Talk In NY

 

Brooklyn, NY ---- Ethnomusicologist Curtis Finney will
discuss “Pink Elephants and Black Holes: A Look at How Black People
Have Been, and Are, Involved in Classical Music” on Wednesday, April
14, 1 p.m. in the Atrium Building, Room 632 at New York City College of
Technology (City Tech) 300 Jay Street (at Tillary) in Downtown Brooklyn.
The public is invited to this free event. For more information, e-mail
Hazel Gibbs, hgibbs@citytech.cuny.edu or call 718.260.5205.

Finney is an emeritus professor at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of
Music. He has taught music in the public schools and has conducted
liturgical masterworks in and around Central New York. He has also
served as adjudicator in choral festivals and competitions. He studied
ethnomusicology at Columbia University, specializing in African music
and conducting field research and studies in Senegal, Ghana, and
Nigeria, 

Since Finney’s retirement from Crane, he has become associated with
the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College in Chicago, and
is researching and lecturing on the contributions of Black people to
classical music.

This event is sponsored by City Tech’s Department of African American
Studies and has been made possible through “Speakers in the
Humanities,” a program of the New York Council for the Humanities.
“Speakers in the Humanities” lectures are made possible with the
support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the New York
State Legislature, and through funds from the Gladys Krieble Delmas
Foundation.

Since its launch in 1983, the Council’s “Speakers in the
Humanities” program has linked distinguished scholars with diverse
audiences through the presentation of lectures on a broad range of
topics. It offers the very best in humanities scholarship to thousands
of citizens in every corner of New York State.

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independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Through statewide collaborations, and programs and services that
encourage imaginative thinking and critical inquiry, the Council works
to ensure that the humanities are present in the intellectual and
cultural life of every New Yorker.

New York City College of Technology (City Tech) of The City University
of New York (CUNY) is the largest public college of technology in New
York State. Located at 300 Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn, the College
enrolls 15,400 students in 60 baccalaureate, associate and specialized
certificate programs. An additional 15,000 enroll in continuing
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Michele Forsten
Director of Communications
NYC College of Technology
300 Jay Street, Namm 325
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.260.5979
718.254.8553 (fax)
mforsten@citytech.cuny.edu