Trilogy: An Opera Company, began its fall winter season in a very special way. “We cannot help for paying close attention to what has happened to Eric Garner as well as Walter Scott and Freddie gray,” said Kevin Maynor, Executive Director/Artistic Director. “The three of them were killed by police. So now we will once again look at the murders through the lens of James Baldwin who has been able to predict the future in a marvelous way. However it is sad that what he has predicted constantly comes to fruition.”
“We look at these situations and place them inside of the musical paradigm reflective of the sounds that need to be associated with such horror. These sounds have traditionally come from our people in a very special way.” Black people have used the spirituals and leader of the blues to tell their stories hauntingly. Once again, Trilogy has chosen Dwayne Fulton a marvelous black composer from Pittsburgh, to provide the sounds of the community as it wails from the horrors thrust upon it. With the assistance of Richard Wesley, the production will crop the words of James Baldwin and expound upon them using the lyric voice.
