The creative agency of Smith’s Ankhrasmation Symbolic Music Language inspired Chacon to develop compositions that give performers autonomy in choosing what they play. Twenty years later, the two artists share a joint concert at Arts and Letters, where each has a… Read More Wadada Leo Smith ...
In April 2013, Smith was named a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in music for "Ten Freedom Summers," an album that presents his interpretation of key moments in the civil rights movement. He developed a musical system, dubbed Ankhrasmation, which he began working on with Association ...
on the civil rights movement, dedicated to “rosa parks, a person of exceptional courage and wisdom, who made the right move of resistance at the right time.” he employs music that is alternately challenging, somber, austerely abstracted, classically beautiful, and wracked with tension ...