Samantha Ege

Combining a mix of lecture and recorded performance, Samantha Ege brings the story of the South Side impresarios to life. She delves into the ways that Chicago's early 20th-century Race women (i.e., Black women intellectuals and creatives committed to the entwined tasks of racial uplift and gender equality) operated out of their South Side base and shaped a new vision for classical music that transformed the city and beyond.