MEMORIAL TODAY 7PM AT THE SCHOMBERG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE!!!
TRIBUTE TO GRAHAM BROWN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE NEGRO ENSEMBLE CO 1968 click
GRAHAM BROWN’S GRAND SIRE ARCHON OF AMERICAN THEATRE
MEMORIAL SERVICE
for
GRAHAM BROWN
Tuesday January 17, 2012
7 pm
at
THE AMERICAN NEGRO THEATRESCHOMBURG CENTER OF RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
515 Malcolm X Blvd. (between: 135th & 136th St.)
Harlem, New York 10037
- quote from Malachon by Derek Walcott…
…The shac-shac and the violin
Mix with the smoke and malcochom
They say “Sing how Chantal the brute
Took the white planter Regis’ life
And what I tell them is the truth
Don’t believe all you heard or read
Chantal the tiger cannot dead….
Like the staining of clear springs the mind of man,
In blood he must end as in blood he began
Like mist that rising from a muddy stream
Between beasthood and Godhead groping in a dream
The rage of the tiger is taken for granted…MORE…
- Graham Brown
- Graham Brown, award winning leading actor of the NY stage and television; revered for his virtuosity, versatility, elegance and humility. He played a multitude of roles over the years and was an origin member of The Negro Ensemble Company (founders: Robert hooks, Douglas Turner Ward, Gerald Krone) since 1968. Graham Brown was…MORE…
