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Sanctuaries at The North Warehouse
Courtesy of Kim Gumbel | Posted on February 13, 2020
Where
The North Warehouse
723 N Tillamook St
Portland, OR
Map
(503) 704-0779
When
Fri, April 24, 2020
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Darrell Grant
pianoChristopher Brown
drumsEzra Weiss
pianoJasnam Daya Singh
pianoMarilyn Keller
vocalsCharlie Porter
trumpetAbout
Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz opera, Sanctuaries, a new work commissioned and produced by Third Angle New Music. This world premiere, site-specific opera is composed by critically acclaimed jazz pianist Darrell Grant (who ‘Gramophone’ has called “a composer of substance”), with libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion Anis Mojgani and stage direction by LA-based opera director Alexander Gedeon. Blending elements of jazz, spoken word, and devised theater, Sanctuaries speaks to the experience of displaced residents of color in Portland's historically black Albina district...