Composer Hairston on path to Carnegie Hall

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 Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 02:39
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The award-winning ASCAP composer-arranger-pianist Jacqueline Butler Hairston previews her Carnegie Hall concert with a 50-voice choir for the 18th AfroSolo Arts Festival on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 4 p.m. in the African-American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St.

The concert is a fundraiser to support the ensembles trip to New York for Hairston's debut at Carnegie Hall in February 2012, leading a choir of 300.

A new work, Why Peace Is Always a Good Idea by Hairston and author Alice Walker will be premiered on Sept. 25.    Other recent collaborators include Kathleen Battle, who performed Hairston selections in concert with the Morgan State University Choir in a 2010 tribute to the Underground Railroad.

For more information, visit afrosolo.org or jbhproductions.com.

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