What exactly is Juneteenth LP?
We are a music collective of mostly classically trained musicians of the African diaspora.
Our mission is to introduce people to classical music by African diaspora composers, but the
gateway is more familiar music to them.
So we play music of all genres.
You know there are these two sort of very distinctly different styles.
People were really, really receptive to the music that I was playing, but I think that
they were not just receptive to what we were playing, they were receptive to the fact that
I talked about the music.
And I talked about how the music spoke to me and I invited the audience to engage with,
you know, what did they hear?
One of the things that people ask me a lot is, what is the impact you want your ensemble
to have?
And then what is the impact you think it actually does have?
I would say that what I want is for it to open people's ears, you know, open people's
minds and open people's hearts.
I just want people to feel something and I want people to know that this music that is
considered very elite and rare and you know all of those things, that actually they have
a cultural history with it as well.
Like it is not something that they have to be on the outside looking in.
The arts sustain us and they sustain us sort of spiritually.
It's not food and it's not shelter and it's not clothing, but it's pretty darn important
and we need it in our lives to sort of feel whole.
Tune in this Tuesday, October 17th at 8 p.m. Eastern for an enlightening conversation with
concert pianist, educator and founder of Juneteenth LP Dr. Nena Aguo on the Pianopause YouTube
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