February 18, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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About the Apollo Chamber Players: Recognized by Compassionate Houston as 2022 Compassion Through the Arts – Artist of the Year, Apollo Chamber Players connects communities and cultures through globally-inspired music. As part of their 16th anniversary season, this collaboration features two Houston Poet Laureate Emeriti in a genre-fusing musical conversation about peace, poetry, and Revisionism as a means of Black censorship. The program features a new commission by award-winning poet, activist, and educator Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton and Emmy-winning composer Jasmine Barnes, with vocal guests from Houston Ebony Opera Guild. Also on the program is PAX by composer John Cornelius featuring award-winning poet Outspoken Bean and tenor Kenneth Gayle.