Sunday, November 10, 2024

07:30 PM | Schermerhorn Symphony Center

11/10

Sunday

07:30 PM
Schermerhorn Symphony Center

GRAMMY® Award-winning musician, MacArthur recipient, and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Rhiannon Giddens returns. Don’t miss her exclusive one-night-only Nashville engagement with Silkroad Ensemble.

Silkroad’s newest initiative, American Railroad, illuminates the impact that the African American, Chinese, Indigenous, Irish, and other immigrant communities had on the creation of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways in North America. Exploring the dissemination of cultures across the United States, the railroad was to North America what the Silk Road was to China, the Far East, and Europe. 

Presented without the Nashville Symphony. 

 

 

Program

 

ABOUT THE VISUALS

The video that runs during this performance was designed by visual artist Camilla Tassi. In it you will see a collection of real historical photos from the cultures and communities the show explores. For Pura Fé’s pieces in particular, Pura Fé contributed personal family photos aimed at reminding audiences of Native peoples’ important continued cultural presence in America.

 

IMAGE SOURCE CITATIONS

  1. Buncombe County Special Collections, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, North Carolina
  1. United States Army. Military Railway Service, photographer by Russell, Andrew J. Two Railroad Construction Workers Hammer Track as Third Construction Worker Watches. [or 1863] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2006676186/>.
  1. United States Army. Military Railway Service, photographer by Russell, Andrew J. Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: African American laborers working on rail. [or 1863] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2006676178/>.
  1. United States Army. Military Railway Service, photographer by Russell, Andrew J. Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: men standing on railroad track. [or 1863] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2006676176/>.
  1. Convicts Leased to Harvest Timber. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669926/>.
  1. “Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah, Japanese American Citizens League photograph collection, P1003n01_01_28”
  1. “Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah, Tsutomu “Tom” and Shirley Sugimoto Inouye digital photograph collection, p1413n04”