Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)
Darwin’s Meditation for the People of Lincoln

The wildly popular Haitian-American artist Daniel Bernard Roumain – renowned for seamlessly blending funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music – returns to Center Stage for the last of a three-year arc of performances. DBR has created an evening length piece, a quartet concerto setting of a pocket play by Obie Award-winning writer Daniel Beaty, that explores the imagined dialogue between Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, two extraordinary men born within hours of each other in 1809. This grandly conceived work employs the expansiveness of a chamber orchestra (featuring our own Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Randolph Foy), together with four arresting soloists – DBR (violin), Wynne Bennett (piano), D.J. Mendel (actor), and Emeline Michel (singer). Darwin’s Meditation for The People of Lincoln sculpts the sound of liberation, survival, and legacy in the image of two of its most tireless proponents.

Pre-show discussion with Daniel Bernard Roumain and Randolph Foy, 6:45pm, Walnut Room.