Presented as part of the American Mavericks Project (AMP) dedicated to piano music by Black composers, pianist Chelsea Randall (AMP's founder), will give the NY premiere of six newly commissioned piano pieces inspired by Black Arts Movement poets including her great uncle, the poet and editor Dudley Randall. The program features music by Carolyn Yarnell, Adolphus Hailstork, Joyce Solomon Moorman, Anthony R. Green, Regina Harris Baiocchi and Jeremiah Evans, based on the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Naomi Long Madgett and Dudley Randall, who platformed these poets via his Detroit-based Broadside Press. Special guest poets Melba Joyce Boyd–Michigan’s Poet Laureate and Dudley Randall’s biographer, and Jon Randall–Dudley’s nephew, will join Chelsea onstage for live readings. “Quest” is dedicated to the memory of Nikki Giovanni.

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