A new documentary video by Luca Bragalini on Duke Ellington's symphonic jazz ballet score Three Black Kings is discussed by scholars of the diverse fields explored in the presentation. 

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AS A BLACK KING OF THE BIBLE IN DUKE ELLINGTON’S SYMPHONIC TRIPTYCH “THREE BLACK KINGS.”

Online video presentation, Thursday, January 27, 2022, 3:00-5:00pm EST (New York Time).

Luca Bragalini (Professor of Jazz History, Music Conservatory of Brescia, Italy).

An ICAMus event, sponsored by MCECS-Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, in collaboration with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and MES-Dept. of Middle East Studies, University of Michigan.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day 2022.

Free registration: https://tinyurl.com/2zvsappv

The video is entirely subtitled (in English). 

EVENT PROGRAM:

3:00-3:15

Joshua Scott, Technical coordinator - Welcome

Jim Lepkowski, President of MCECS-Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies - Intro from MCECS

Karla Mallette, Director of MES-Middle East Studies Dept., University of Michigan - Intro from MES

Aloma Bardi, Director of ICAMus-The International Center for American Music - Intro from ICAMus; introduces Luca Bragalini

3:15 – Video - duration: 51:12

4:10-4:30 – The Panel of Specialists discussing the video includes:

Aloma Bardi - American-Music scholar, Founding Director of ICAMus

Rodney Caruthers II - New Testament scholar, Reseach Fellow at Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies

Stefano Zenni - Musicologist and jazz expert, Music Conservatory Bologna, Italy

Gabriele Boccaccini - Middle East Studies Dept. & Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

Bill Doggett - Historian, archivist, and African-American music expert, Director of Bill Doggett Productions

Marcello Piras - Musicologist and author, expert of jazz and Musics of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico

4:30-5:00 – Luca Bragalini replies to comments, Q&A, general discussion

5:00 – End of event & announcement of upcoming webinar on Feb 1

In the website 4enoch.org edited by Professor Gabriele Boccaccini, a page provides further information and bibliography on the Black King in the history of Christian thought and in the arts:

https://4enoch.org/wiki5/index.php?title=Category:Black_King_(subject)

FIND OUT MORE ON THIS EVENT HERE.

#LucaBragalini #BragaliniSymphonicEllington #ICAMusMLK2022