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Purchase of Manhattan on HUFFINGTON POST

11/17/2014

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The new concert opera Purchase of Manhattan made the Huffington Post  yesterday! 

"...While some dispute the exact price, a new opera entitled "Purchase of Manhattan" explores this little-known history, hitting the stage for one night on November 20 at New York's Marble Collegiate Church... 

Joe Baker, co-founder and Executive Director of the Lenape Center, said he recognized an important role the opera could play in promoting and perpetuating Lenape culture through the arts. 

'I feel so strongly that the appropriate platform for the telling of this complicated and at times conflicted history [of the Lenape people] is the arts,' Baker told HuffPost. 'When we had the opportunity to work with Brent Michael Davids to create an original work that spoke to this moment in history [...] we felt that we were fulfilling our mission'..." 

Read more HERE!
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    The "Purchase of Manhattan" is a new Concert Opera by Brent Michael Davids & Joe Bruchac, commissioned by Lenape Center of Manhattan!

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