The Road We Came New York 2021 Kenneth Overton

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Road We Came   
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: New York City  
• Recorded: 2021
• Type: Movie
• Singers: Kenneth Overton
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Kevin J. Miller, PIANO  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer: Jessica Jahn  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Helioarts  
• Date Published: 20221  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  The Road We Came is a new opera- and song-based project that explores the composers, musicians and places that define the rich Black history of New York City through a series of self-guided, musical walking tours.

  Celebrating a collection of never-recorded and seemingly lost classical compositions by Black composers, The Road We Came uses filmed musical performances and spoken narration to connect audiences to the musical timeline of Harlem, Midtown/Hell’s Kitchen and lower Manhattan. From the home and texts of the prolific poet Langston Hughes, to Lincoln Center, to the African Burial Ground National Monument, and beyond, The Road We Came opens windows to the past and re-frames the present. The Road We Came is a multi-media collaboration between On Site Opera, Ryan & Tonya McKinny’s Keep the Music Going Productions, award-winning biographer and Harlem historian Eric K. Washington, and critically acclaimed baritone, Kenneth Overton, who was the featured soloist of the tours.

  EPISODES:
  African Burial Ground
  Underground Railroad Station
  Cooper Union / Wannamaker’s Department Store
  Union Square / Former Colored School No. 4
  Lincoln Center
  Carnegie Hall
  Silent Protest
  Music School Settlement
  Langston Hughes House
  New Amsterdam Musical Association
  Strivers Row

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