For Dav\u00f3ne Tines, the fifth annual \u201cI Dream a World Festival\u201d with New World Symphony is more than just a performance \u2014 it is a chance to wield his voice as an instrument of change.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of flatly entertaining, I want to use the concert stage as a forum for exploring questions and that work has continued with New World Symphony,\u201d says the internationally renowned bass-baritone.<\/p>\n
\u201cLift Every Voice and Sing,\u201d the symphony\u2019s four-day tribute to Black composers from the Civil Rights era to the present day, provides that opportunity.<\/p>\n
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Internationally renowned bass-baritone Dav\u00f3ne Tines, will perform in the New World Symphony\u2019s fifth annual I Dream a World: Lift Every Voice and Sing Festival.<\/p>\n
(Courtesy of New World Symphony)<\/p>\n
Produced in partnership with Tammy Kernodle, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Music at Ohio\u2019s Miami University, the event will be featured on two stages: one in Overtown and the other in Miami Beach.<\/p>\n
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Dav\u00f3ne Tines, along with soprano Kristin Renee Young and the Fellows of the New World Symphony, will bring the musical friendship between Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes and composer and pianist Margaret Bonds onstage.<\/p>\n
(Courtesy of New World Symphony)<\/p>\n
The festival premieres Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the New World Center in Miami Beach. Tines, along with soprano Kristin Renee Young and the Fellows of the New World Symphony, will bring the musical friendship between Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes and composer and pianist Margaret Bonds to life onstage.<\/p>\n
\u201cSalon: I, Too, Sing America\u201d promises an elegant celebration of Hughes, the literary parties he frequented and his subsequent musical collaboration with Bonds.<\/p>\n
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The event will be featured on two stages: one at the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater in Overtown and the other at the New World Center on Miami Beach.<\/p>\n
(Courtesy of New World Symphony)<\/p>\n
The program will also be presented Thursday, Feb. 19, at the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater in Overtown. Tickets are pay-what-you-wish, with suggestions starting at $10.<\/p>\n
The remaining two performances return to the New World Center stage, where Panamanian-American conductor Kalena Bovell leads NWS.<\/p>\n
In a blockbuster rendition, Tines is slated to present \u201cConcerto No. 2: ANTHEM,\u201d a provocative piece in which he wonders aloud whether the \u201cStar Spangled Banner\u201d is truly an inspirational and unifying battle cry for patriotic Americans.<\/p>\n
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In \u201cConcerto No. 2: ANTHEM\u201d Dav\u00f3ne Tines challenges whether the Star Spangled Banner is an inspirational battle cry for patriotic Americans.<\/p>\n
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Spoiler alert: It isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think the \u2018Star Spangled Banner\u2019 has been a good part of the DNA of this country because it suggests that our country is founded on ideals of conquering others and oppression,\u201d says Tines, adding that it is important to reconsider symbols that have been chosen to represent America.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026 Make sure that they\u2019re in line with what we as a society are deeming the most positive reflection of where we\u2019re trying to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Self-written and performed, Tines calls his piece an educational tool that uses a \u201cmagic trick\u201d to transform the \u201cStar Spangled Banner\u201d into \u201cThe Black National Anthem.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI really wanted to show to audiences in full orchestral glory, what this alternative option for a national anthem could be,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
This anthem, believes Tines, has better values for a \u201ccountry to be built on.\u201d His piece begins with a bang.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first movement is the \u2018Star Spangled Banner\u2019 starting in a very, like MGM musical, Whitney Houston at the Super Bowl. It\u2019s like the Fourth of July on steroids,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n
Then the tone and messaging shift.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe subsequent verses become darker or more menacing as the text of the song becomes darker and more menacing.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Tines\u2019 concerto isn\u2019t the only work drawing from Francis Scott Key\u2019s 1814 composition, which became the country\u2019s official anthem in 1931.<\/p>\n
Jessie Montgomery\u2019s \u201cBanner,\u201d composed in 2014, offers a multicultural response marking the national anthem\u2019s 200th anniversary and will be led by first-year Conducting NWS Fellow Ziwei Ma.<\/p>\n
Also on the program is Bonds\u2019 \u201cThe Montgomery Variations.\u201d Based on \u201cI Want Jesus to Walk with Me,\u201d the 25-minute orchestral work serves as a homage to Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.<\/p>\n
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The Florida Memorial University Ambassador Chorale returns to the New World Symphony\u2019s fifth annual I Dream a World Festival.<\/p>\n
(Courtesy of New World Symphony)<\/p>\n
The Florida Memorial University Ambassador Chorale rounds out the event with a performance of \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing,\u201d known universally as the \u201cBlack National Anthem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Argarita Johnson-Palavicini, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Florida Memorial University and director of the Ambassador Chorale, looks forward to another year of collaboration between FMU and the New World Symphony.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just really happy to be a part of this I have a dream journey that New World Symphony embarks upon every year,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Johnson-Palavicini notes that their participation is heightened by working with Tines and says she is particularly pleased that the festival will showcase the music of Margaret Bonds.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr. Kernodle does a great job of picking or choosing pieces that most people don\u2019t know of, so to highlight the music of a female composer during this time is really what makes it special,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we just want to continue to make great music together and to encourage and to educate the world about all of the wonderful historical Black music that people may not know about.\u201d<\/p>\n
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