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Literature Talk
One time onlyOmar Opera Insights
At North Park University
North Park, Chicago
📜Said's 1831 memoir: only Arabic slave narrative known to survive
🎭Pairs perfectly with seeing the full opera
🏫Held on North Park University campus
One manuscript, three musical traditions, endless questions. This panel unpacks how West African strings, Islamic liturgy, and bluegrass collide in Omar, the opera built from an enslaved scholar's own words.
Panel discussion
Opera companion event
Black history
Musicology
Saturday, October 17
2:00 PM
Literature Talk
One time onlyOmar Opera Insights
At North Park University
North Park, Chicago
📜Said's 1831 memoir: only Arabic slave narrative known to survive
🎭Pairs perfectly with seeing the full opera
🏫Held on North Park University campus
One manuscript, three musical traditions, endless questions. This panel unpacks how West African strings, Islamic liturgy, and bluegrass collide in Omar, the opera built from an enslaved scholar's own words.
Panel discussion
Opera companion event
Black history
Musicology
Saturday, October 17
2:00 PM