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Born and raised in Kansas City, Rosalyn M. Story (https://fwsymphony.org/about/musicians/rosalyn-story) is a professional classical violinist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, journalist, lecturer at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, librettist, and writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her book And So I Sing: African American Divas of Opera and Concert (1990) inspired the PBS documentary Aida’s Brothers and Sisters: Black Voices in Opera and Concert (1999), in which Story also appears as featured narrator. Her novels More Than You Know (2004), Wading Home (2010), and Sing Her Name (2022) also deal with African-American musicians, as well as with racism, cities, and hope for the future. In 2012, Story was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.
In this class we will read (excerpts from) And So I Sing, Wading Home, and Sing Her Name; and we will look at the adaptation of Wading Home into an opera. Moreover, Rosalyn Story will come to Essen for a week in June to discuss and read from her books and tell us about what it means to be a writer in 21st-century America.
This class will allow students to improve their Information Literacy, Reading, Analysis, and Oral Communication competences.
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