

Admission: $25 youth (12 and under): $10, available at the door, or by reservation at the church office, 73 (ext. 13 at the First Congregational Church, 608 E. A historical narrative will provide context for the program. Caught in the Act: Music of Robbie Smith, CMU Fac Jazz, 2007.

Selections will include music from "Clorindy: The Origin of the Cakewalk," the first African American musical revue to play on Broadway. Conspiracy Theory: Music of Robbie Smith, CMU Fac Jazz, 2010. Rosamond Johnson, James Reese Europe, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton and Luckey Roberts. Bdwy debut 1963 in The Irregular Verb to Love followed by The Country Girl, Chapter Two, OB in A Meeting by the River, Loving Reno, The News in Revue. Also on the program are works by African American composers and songwriters including Will Marion Cook, Bob Cole and J.

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The Tecumseh-based RRRR is a professional theater orchestra dedicated to presenting significant American music.Īs part of a Black History Month program, Johnson and the RRRR will present selections from Scott Joplin’s opera "Treemonisha." She will also sing several songs of the ragtime and musical theater composer Joe Jordan. Johnson is an acclaimed singer, an Ypsilanti native and University of Michigan graduate, who performed for President and Michelle Obama at the White House last year. Educating and entertaining through the performance of outstanding American music River Raisin Ragtime Revue Tecumseh MI. 8,034 likes 43 talking about this 13 were here. The River Raisin Ragtime Revue will team up with Anita Johnson, a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera, for a concert Sunday afternoon at the First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor. River Raisin Ragtime Revue, Tecumseh, Michigan.
