Saxophonist/composer Fred Ho and the Afro-Asian Music
Ensemble with Esther Iverem and Alma Villegas.
Renowned musician/composer to speak at UTSA March 22
(March 15, 2002)--The University of Texas at San Antonio Literary and Cultural Studies Lecture Series is presenting Fred Ho, leader of the Afro-Asian Musical Ensemble, speaking on "Kreolization and Hybridity: Music, Culture, National Liberation and Revolutionary Struggle" at 4 p.m. Friday, March 22 in the University Center Mesquite Room on the 1604 Campus.
The performance/discussion is designed to increase awareness of the relationships between African Americans and Asian Americans. Ho, a musician, composer and activist, is an internationally renowned baritone saxophonist. He has worked with Charlie Persip, Archie Shepp, Gil Evans and Sunny Murray, among other musicians. He has recorded for Soul Note/Black Saint Records of Italy, AsianImprov Records and Finnadar/Atlantic Records in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ho’s most recent compositions include "Monkey and the Spider Spirits," a ballet based on a 16th century Chinese novel. He composed the world's first Chinese American opera, "A Chinaman’s Chance," which uses Chinese myth and American frontier folklore to recount the history of the Chinese railroad workers on the West Coast.
Ho has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Duke Ellington Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award from the Black Musicians Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The Literary and Cultural Studies Lecture Series continues on April 9 with the panel presentation "Languages in Contact: Global/Local Perspectives" at 5:30 p.m. in the John Peace Library Building Regents Room (4.03.12) on the 1604 Campus. Moderated by Maryellen Garcia of UTSA’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, panelists will include Tania Kouteva of Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf, Germany; Carol Myers-Scotton of the University of South Carolina; and Bob Bayley of the UTSA Bilingual/Bicultural Studies Program.
The UTSA Literary and Cultural Studies Lecture Series Committee is Bernadette Andrea, Norma Cantu, Bridget Drinka, Maryellen Garcia, Debbie Lopez and Bill Mullen. The series is supported by the College of Liberal and Fine Arts; Department of English, Classics and Philosophy; and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information call (210)
458-5351.
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