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This one-hour performance of selected solo and string quartet works by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), featuring his string quartet DBR & THE MISSION SQ UNIT and DJ Scientific, also includes a Q&A session. Selections include excerpts from String Quartet No. 2 (King) and String Quartet No. 4 (Angelou) plus others. This school performance was developed from DBR’s work, A Civil Rights Reader — a collection of DBR’s string quartets exploring iconic figures of the civil rights era: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Maya Angelou.

DBR is a composer, performer, violinist, and bandleader who seamlessly blends funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music into a new sonic vision that is far out and creative in another world. Critics from both the classical and popular music fields rave about this classical-urban ambassador for the next generation. DBR is a musical revolutionary for the 21st century.

Recommended for junior high and high school students.
Running Time: One hour.