Ballad Of The Brown King with Oberlin College Choir Nov. 22 by Marci Janas '91
	RELATED Two Evenings of Music Celebrate the Centennial of Poet Langston Hughes About the Oberlin College Choir		Photo by Roger Mastroianni A free, public concert on Friday, November 22, at 6:30 p.m. in the Conservatory's Warner Concert Hall continues Oberlin's tribute to Langston Hughes. The Oberlin College Choir, conducted by Hugh Floyd, will perform "The Ballad of the Brown King," with music by the African American composer Margaret Bonds and text by Hughes. This event represents a portion of Oberlin senior Marti Newland's African American Studies honors project. Newland will speak briefly before the performance about Bonds' life, music, and close friendship with Hughes. A question-and-answer session for the choir and the audience will follow. Newland says the discussion will focus upon "Black female composers' use of the Black idiom in classical European music -- using Bonds as an example -- and other issues such as the proper vocal technique necessary for singing vocal music in the Black idiom." In addition to her major in African American Studies in the College, Newland is also a vocal performance major in the Conservatory.
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