Wordsmith
Hansel & Gretel with BSO Wind Quintet + Wordsmith
Sky Stage Frederick MD
59 S Carroll St
Frederick, MD 21701
9 juin 2024
11:00 UTC−4
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Description du concert
This family-friendly concert culminates in a spellbinding narrative performance of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel, arranged for wind quintet and narrator and performed by BSO musicians alongside the recording artist and actor Wordsmith.
Program
Jennifer Higdon: Sky Quartet
Holly Jenkins and Chisa Kodaka, violins; Lisa Steltenpohl, viola; Seth Low, cello
Zoltán Kodály: Serenade for String Trio, Op.12
Agnes Tse and Chelsea Kim, violins; Karin Brown, viola
Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel, arr. for wind quintet and narrator
Marcia McHugh, flute; Melissa Hooper, oboe; Vitor Trindade, clarinet
Sean Gordon, bassoon; Beth Graham, horn; Wordsmith, narrator
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Biographie de Wordsmith
Wordsmith is a songwriter, poet, recording artist, actor, playwright, entrepreneur and philanthropist from Baltimore, MD.
He earned a full athletic scholarship to play football at Morgan State University studying radio, TV and Performing Arts. A transfer to Salisbury University 2 years later earned Wordsmith a Bachelor's Degree in Performing Arts, Music & Theater in 2002.
Wordsmith is a Grammy Voting Member, finalist for the 2023 & 2024 Baker Artist Awards, selected as one of 25 Black Marylanders to Watch in 2024 by the Baltimore Sun, 5 time ASCAPLUS Award winner, and winner of Best Rap/Hip Album for Perspective Jukebox at the 16th Independent Music Awards. His music and jingles are featured on prominent networks and shows like WWE, ESPN Sportscenter, Kawasaki, Russian Doll (Netflix), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), Preacher (AMC) and many more!
Continuing to expand his reach, Wordsmith is an International Exchange Alumni with the US Department of State. He has performed major concerts, humanitarian missions and held music/performance/poetry workshops in Azerbaijan, Haiti, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Angola, Ukraine, Namibia, Cote D’ Ivoire, Panama, Tunisia and Tanzania since 2016.
Wordsmith’s career took a new direction in 2018 when he was hired to write new narration for Carnival of the Animals with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. A second opportunity came when Wordsmith was asked to host the 2018 BSO Gala with special guest Cynthia Erivo. Officially becoming an Artistic Partner with the BSO in September 2020, Wordsmith & composer James Lee III debuted two commissioned pieces; “Destined Words” for the BSO Gala Celebration in honor of Marin Alsop and the Frederick Douglass inspired piece “Freedom’s Genuine Dawn.” Wordsmith followed up these performances with landmark reinterpretations of Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale”, “Beethoven Ninth,” his original classical fusion piece “Made in America” and the world premiere of “Network to Freedom, ” on MLK Day 2024!
Wordsmith officially opened his nonprofit “Rise with a Purpose, Inc.” in 2020, while delivering his first TED Talk via John Hopkins University. Always looking to expand his horizons, Wordsmith collaborated with composer/pianist Kory Caudill for an album called “Progressions” and a concert series called “Concert for the Human Family.” Putting his Theater degree to work, Wordsmith wrote and directed an original play his theater students performed in called “The Purple Tape” to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop in 2023.
Wordsmith is currently working on a House music EP called “Free House” and teaming up for a jazz poetry album called “Nothing but Change Stays the Same” with Grammy winning pianist and composer Alex Brown.
Plus d'infoHe earned a full athletic scholarship to play football at Morgan State University studying radio, TV and Performing Arts. A transfer to Salisbury University 2 years later earned Wordsmith a Bachelor's Degree in Performing Arts, Music & Theater in 2002.
Wordsmith is a Grammy Voting Member, finalist for the 2023 & 2024 Baker Artist Awards, selected as one of 25 Black Marylanders to Watch in 2024 by the Baltimore Sun, 5 time ASCAPLUS Award winner, and winner of Best Rap/Hip Album for Perspective Jukebox at the 16th Independent Music Awards. His music and jingles are featured on prominent networks and shows like WWE, ESPN Sportscenter, Kawasaki, Russian Doll (Netflix), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), Preacher (AMC) and many more!
Continuing to expand his reach, Wordsmith is an International Exchange Alumni with the US Department of State. He has performed major concerts, humanitarian missions and held music/performance/poetry workshops in Azerbaijan, Haiti, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Angola, Ukraine, Namibia, Cote D’ Ivoire, Panama, Tunisia and Tanzania since 2016.
Wordsmith’s career took a new direction in 2018 when he was hired to write new narration for Carnival of the Animals with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. A second opportunity came when Wordsmith was asked to host the 2018 BSO Gala with special guest Cynthia Erivo. Officially becoming an Artistic Partner with the BSO in September 2020, Wordsmith & composer James Lee III debuted two commissioned pieces; “Destined Words” for the BSO Gala Celebration in honor of Marin Alsop and the Frederick Douglass inspired piece “Freedom’s Genuine Dawn.” Wordsmith followed up these performances with landmark reinterpretations of Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale”, “Beethoven Ninth,” his original classical fusion piece “Made in America” and the world premiere of “Network to Freedom, ” on MLK Day 2024!
Wordsmith officially opened his nonprofit “Rise with a Purpose, Inc.” in 2020, while delivering his first TED Talk via John Hopkins University. Always looking to expand his horizons, Wordsmith collaborated with composer/pianist Kory Caudill for an album called “Progressions” and a concert series called “Concert for the Human Family.” Putting his Theater degree to work, Wordsmith wrote and directed an original play his theater students performed in called “The Purple Tape” to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop in 2023.
Wordsmith is currently working on a House music EP called “Free House” and teaming up for a jazz poetry album called “Nothing but Change Stays the Same” with Grammy winning pianist and composer Alex Brown.
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