Chelsea Randall: American Mavericks Project Vl. 1: Quest

“American Mavericks Project Vl. 1: Quest” is pianist Chelsea Randall’s interdisciplinary commissioning project celebrating the potent and timely work of trailblazing Black Arts Movement poets and the legacy of her great uncle, the poet and editor Dudley Randall, through the lens of new piano music. Presented as part of Chelsea’s initiative the American Mavericks Project (AMP), which is dedicated to piano music by Black American composers, she will premiere six new pieces for solo piano by esteemed composers Carolyn Yarnell, Adolphus Hailstork, Joyce Solomon Moorman, Anthony R. Green, Regina Harris Baiocchi and Jeremiah Evans, inspired by 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. Melba Joyce Boyd, Michigan’s Poet Laureate and Dudley Randall’s biographer, and Jon Randall, a Broadside Press poet and Dudley’s nephew, will recite the poems which inspired the commissioned works.

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