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"Crowns"
/ Salerno-Sonnenberg
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a new play premiering at McCarter Theatre presents
a living context for the photographs and oral histories
collected in the book Crowns: Portaits of Black
Women in Their Church Hats. Using the African-American
custom of the Sunday morning "hat queens"
as a point from which to launch the audience into
the heart of a culture, Crowns tells individual
stories of tradition, honor, faith and, of course,
fashion. State of the Arts explores the rich history
behind this unique production.
McCarter
Theatre’s web site: www.mccarter.org/crowns.cfm
Web site for Ellarslie, the Trenton City Museum:
www.ellarslie.org/crowns.htm
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 We
visit violin superstar Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
in her New York apartment as she prepares to play
the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra. Salerno-Sonnenberg says she
waited until relatively late in life to perform
the concerto because it is such a profound work.
A New Jersey native, Salerno-Sonnenberg is the
subject of a recent HBO Academy Award-nominated
documentary called "Speaking in Strings."
www.nadjasalernosonnenberg.com
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