Review: An impresaria rediscovered in “The Passion of Mary Caldwell Dawson”
She also founded the Cardwell Dawson Choir, mentored dozens of young Black singers and championed the staging of works by Black composers, including R. Nathaniel Dett’s 1932 oratorio “The Ordering of Moses” and Clarence Cameron White’s “Ouanga.”
President John F. Kennedy appointed Dawson to the National Music Committee in 1961, a year before her death from a heart attack.“The Passion of Mary Caldwell Dawson,” which repeats twice on Sunday, is an attempt to address the glaring omission of Dawson’s contributions from the annals of American opera history. Along with “Building the Stage,” a companion exhibit of images and costumes from the company on view in the Hall of States until Feb.
Graves first played the role of Dawson when the initial iteration of the show premiered at the 2021 Glimmerglass Festival in New York. Dawson’s story was the impetus behind the launch of the Simon’s original music lends an additional emotional luster — Mills’s lonely piano hints at Debussian interludes in the opening “Divided Soul.” And Seaton’s text finds potent echoes to string through Simon’s music — poetically capturing Dawson’s ambition, grit and grace. Their closer “She Steps Onto a Floating Stage” is especially beautiful, and left me wondering how much richer a realization this might be with the incorporation of a chamber orchestra.
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