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Wednesday, March 15th
6 — 7:30 p.m.
The Jazz Salon: Photographer Clemens Kalischer at Music Inn
Robert Mills Carriage House : 1616 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201
What happens when a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, a man whose faith in art and social justice sustained him through three years in concentration camps, finds himself in the presence of gospel matriarchs Mahalia Jackson singing the blues, free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman singing Bach chorales, and Harlem dancers Leon James and Al Minns taking flight to execute their Lindy Hop air steps?
University of Vermont Professor John Gennari will talk about that moment at the Music Inn in the 1950s as seen through the photographs of Clemen Kalischer, with music from the time performed by the Mark Rapp Group. Through a dialogue of spoken word and music, The Jazz Salon will highlight the intersection of jazz, post-Holocaust Jewish cultural life, black-Jewish interactions, and the movement for black freedom and equality.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. A reception in My Mother’s Garden at Robert Mills will follow the program.
This event is co-presented by Historic Columbia, University of South Carolina's History Center, Institute for Southern Studies, and Humanities Collaborative, and ColaJazz.
John Gennari
Mark Rapp
