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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 9
Skillful Musicians
Mr. Washington on organ surrounded by BRAVO campers
Energetic, excited, and
attentive young people's
responses warmed hearts of
the supportive audience. The
BRAVO music campers
were attendees at the organ
performance of Mr. Luther
Washington, II, Thursday,
July 8, 2010, at Butler
Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Washington, Guest
Choir Director, is a gifted
musician as a conductor,
organist/accompanist, and
instructor. He has completed
graduate studies at Georgia
State University in Choral
Conducting. He serves as
choral director at Greater
Atlanta Adventist Academy,
church organist at Cascade
United Methodist Church
and the Atlanta Berean
Seventh-day Adventist
Church.
The Rev. Don Dilley,
Interim Pastor, of the church,
presented the inspiration.
He asked campers who was
the greatest musician in the
Bible and discussed the com
forting effect that David's
music had on King Saul.
Mr. Michael
Hutchinson delivered a short
talk that was a segue to
Minister Dilley's inspiration.
Beginning the talk, Mr.
Hutchinson informed the
campers that David said to
play skillfully. Campers,
Theodore Terry and Eric
Gadson, found in Psalms 33
David's words. Mr.
Hutchinson informed the
young people that they must
play skillfully in order to be
accepted into Savannah Arts
Academy.
Mrs. Portia Shuler-
Hawkins, Piano Master
Class clinician, accompanied
Mr. Washington on piano for
the prelude. Mrs. Hawkins
is an advocate for the preser
vation and performance of
music written by African
American composers and
was a member of the famous
Fisk Jubilee Singers. They
preformed “Jesu, Joy of
Man's Desiring” and “God of
Our Fathers”; both arranged
by Tedd Smith and Don
Hastad.
Among Mr.
Washington's performances
were “Sheep May Safely
Graze,” by Johann Sebastian
Bach and “Joyful, Joyful, We
Adore Thee,” from ODE TO
JOY by Ludwig van
Beethoven.
Mr. Washington's solo
performance and incidental
teaching moments with the
young musicians brought
focus and attention on the
Master Teacher as well as a
standing ovation, “bravo.”
The public is invited to
BRAVO's closing program,
where campers will show
case David's words: to play
skillfully, Friday, July 16,
2010, 4:00 p.m. at DeRenne
Middle School.
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Film on Nova Scotia’s Basket Making
Tradition
to Premier July 15th
Clara Gough with
A documentary film
exploring African traditions in
the fine art of basket weaving in
Nova Scotia, Canada will have
its first U.S. showing in
Savannah on July 15, 2010.
Featured in the documentary
“From These Roots: Taking Up
the Basket” is Afro-Canadian
Clara Gough who will journey
to Savannah to participate on the
program. The opening
program featuring the documen
tary and her baskets will be pre
sented in the Ralph Mark
Gilbert Civil Rights Museum
Annex (460 Martin Luther King
Blvd) on Thursday, July 15th
from 6 to 8 pm. The exhibit of
her baskets will continue in the
Art Gallery of Savannah State's
Social Science Building (next to
Jordan Hall) from July 19
through August 13, 2010. For
gallery times and additional
information, call 912/358-3221.
Part II of the series will be
one of her creations
University. The project is fund
ed by a grant from the Institute
of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS), a federal
agency. Co-sponsors include
Savannah State's College of
Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences, the Department of
Mass Communications, and the
Friends of African American
Art of Telfair Academy.
African basketmaking tradi
tions are deep in the soil of the
lowcountry of Southeast
Georgia and South Carolina,
gaining recent international
recognition. South Carolina
fiber artist Mary Jackson won a
prestigious MacArthur
“genius” award in 2008. The
Mt. Pleasant, SC resident was
also recently awarded a
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National Endowment for the
Arts' Heritage Fellowship, a
one-time award of $25,000. In
Georgia, the late Herbert
Jerome Dixon of Sapelo Island,
a retired Marine who died
January 28, 2010, was widely
recognized as “the premiere
sweetgrass basket weaver in the
state.
While rooted in a
long tradition, Gough has added
her own touch and style to her
baskets. In addition to creating
widely sought after market bas
kets, cradles, and other pieces,
she also creates “sculptures.”
According to
Savannah State's Dr. Ronald
Bailey, project director for the
IMLS grant, six museums par
ticipate in the collaboration
funded by IMLS. They include
the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil
Rights Museum; the Beach
Institute African American
Culture Center/King-Tisdell
Cottage; the First African
Baptist Church Museum; the
Dorchester Academy Museum
in Midway; the Willow Hill
Heritage and Renaissance
Center in Portal, and the SSU
Archives.
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with a hands-on basket making
class in Savannah State's Social
Science Building. Space is lim
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required. Part II can also be
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