HYDE PARK — The South Shore Opera Company will celebrate Black History Month with Toni Morrison’s poems set to music by André Previn.
The free performance starts at 4 p.m. Sunday at the South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Drive.
Soprano Kimberly Jones will perform Morrison’s poems with Leslie Dunner and the South Shore Opera Chamber Players.
The group will also play the rarely performed "Symphony Op. 11" by Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the black violin virtuoso and French revolutionary colonel considered the first classical composer of African ancestry.
The performance also includes works by Scott Joplin, W.C. Handy, Duke Ellington and others.
For more information, visit southshoreopera.org.
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