Spring 1997

From The Negros Burial Ground

Leroy Jenkins and Ann T. Greene

Opera Ebony performs the score and lyrics originally published in Conjunctions:28, Secular Psalms. Direction: Wayne Sanders. Piano: Joan Harkness. Percussion: Wilson Moorman. Vibraphone: Thurman Barker. Opera Ebony vocalists: Romulus Murrell, Angela Simpson, Danrell Williams, Linda Hardwick, Gordon Easley, Roberta Laws, Everett Suttle, Andrea Bradford, Anna Dembska. Produced at the Kitchen, May 16–19 and 23–26, 1996. Directed by Dominic Taylor. Additional funding from the Rockefeller Multiarts Production Fund and the Mary Flager Cary Charitable Trust.

Leroy Jenkins (1932–2007) was a composer and avant-garde jazz violinist and violist known for works of musical theater such as The Mother of Three Sons (written in collaboration with Ann T. Greene), Fresh Faust and The Negros Burial Ground (in collaboration with Ann T. Greene), and The Three Willies (in collaboration with Homer Jackson).

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Ann T. Greene is the librettist for operas by composers such as Leroy Jenkins, Fred Ho, and Bill T. Jones.

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