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Tanner Humanities Lecture: A Conversation With Martha S. Jones
February is Black History Month, but even those of us who grew up learning a few names of notable historical African-Americans probably can t come up with a female name beyond Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. The history of Black women in America has been a history of struggle against two cultural obstacles to equality race
and sex. And even as the 2020 election elevated the significance of Black women as a game-changing voting bloc, and made Stacey Abrams a figure of national importance, that reality wasn t possible without the work of many mostly-forgotten pioneers.
Sun Feb 14, 2021 at 12:18 pm By Rick Mortensen
Singers perform in Utah Opera’s streamed concert, “Light on the Horizon.”
Utah Opera opened its season last October with an in-person but socially distanced double bill of Poulenc’s
The Human Voice and Joseph Horovitz’s
Gentlemen’s Island.
Four months later the pandemic is still with us though there is hope, as reflected in the title of the company’s second production,
Light on the Horizon. Premiering Friday night–and available through March 14–this streaming concert featured six singers, 35 musicians, and a program ranging from Handel to Sondheim.
Like its first production, “Light on the Horizon” showed the depth of the company’s commitment to both safety and artistic excellence. The singers stayed six feet away from each other and the same distance was maintained between the mostly masked musicians on the stage. That created a clarity of sound rarel