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2/8/99

HARLEM RENAISSANCE RECALLED IN PERFORMANCE AT SLU

CANTON - "Of Ebony Embers," a music theatre work for solo actor 
and chamber music trio that explores the life and times of 
African Americans who helped shape the Harlem Renaissance, will be 
performed by The Core Ensemble at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, 
February 18, at 7 p.m. in Gulick Theatre.
	The performance, part of the University's celebration of Black 
History Month, is open to the public free of charge.
	"Of Ebony Embers" was adapted for the stage by Saundra McClain; 
the script is written and acted by Akin Babatunde. 
	The piece examines the lives of three outstanding, but very 
different, African American poets - Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and 
Claude McKay - as seen through the eyes of muralist Aaron Douglas. The 
Core Ensemble, a nationally acclaimed trio of cello, piano and percussion, 
performs music by African American composers ranging from jazz greats Duke 
Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonius Monk and Charles 
Mingus to concert music composers William Grant Gill and George Walker.
	The Core Ensemble - Andrew Mark, cello; Hugh Hinton, piano; and 
Michael Parola, percussion - has garnered national recognition for its 
efforts to commission new chamber and multi-genre works. Babatunde has 
been a resident company member at Trinity Repertory Theater, the Alley 
Theater and the Dallas Theater Center and is nationally known for his 
regular appearances on the public television children's program "Wishbone."

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