Community Music Center (CMC), is proud to partner with the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) to present A Song of Triumph II: The Diaspora of Black Music as part of the Juneteenth Freedom Celebration. A Song of Triumph II is a woven quilt of Black music that has influenced the world, developed by CMC’s Black Music Studies creator and Department Head, Maestro Curtis, PhD. It showcases The Curtis Family Cnotes and members of the stellar CMC faculty, Jon Jang, Rita Lackey, Ken Little, Clif Payne, and Tregar Otton—all of whom are professionals in their own right who also perform music from the African (Alkebulan)-derived diaspora—but moreover, the music of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas.
A Song of Triumph II celebrates American Classical Music as the music of African slaves of America, Caribbean, South America and their descendants who created a new cultural identity after being robbed of their history, deity, culture, and sense of family connection to their true roots. This presentation is an amalgamation of African rhythms and harmonies, and the merging of African and European concepts by virtue of indoctrination by slave owners via Eurocentric Christian Hymns. A Song of Triumph I: The History of Black Music was premiered in 2022 by an all-Black (African American) cast. This year’s performance aims to spotlight the music and culture from the descendants of African slaves of the Americas and its influence—dominating the entire globe and permeating all barriers of color, race, and ethnicity to become both diverse and universal in its appeal.
The concert will last approximately 50 minutes and be performed twice, once at 3pm and again at 4pm.
The concert is part of a free community day and Juneteenth celebration at the Museum of the African Diaspora.
We encourage reserving free museum tickets to attend this event. RESERVE HERE