UPCOMING EVENTS
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2020s Events:
Edges of Ailey exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, Sept. 25, 2024 - February 9, 2025. Murray was included in this gigantic exhibition on the world(s) of Alvin Ailey through the documentary Bearden Plays Bearden (dir. Nelson Breen, 1980), which features Ailey, James Baldwin, Romare Bearden, and Murray having a conversation. That portion of the documentary streamed on a continuous loop in the exhibition. (Michele Murray was a dancer with the Ailey Company in the 1960s and 1970s.)
“A Tribute to Albert Murray”/Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of South to a Very Old Place, Six Bridges Book Festival, Central Arkansas Public Library System, Nov. 9, 2021 via Zoom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH62sgM5xC8
Late 2010s Events:
INTERNMENT OF THE ASHES OF ALBERT & MOZELLE MURRAY AT TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY
April 8, 2018
ALBERT MURRAY IN WORDS AND MUSIC
March 6, 2017 / American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA, a program of the Hutchins Center, Harvard University
92nd Street Y — A Celebration of Albert Murray
November 28, 2016
An evening of readings to celebrate the centennial of Albert Murray — “an authority on soul from the days of old” (Duke Ellington) — upon publication of Collected Essays and Memoirs by Library of America. Featuring Renata Adler, Paul Devlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Wynton Marsalis, and Ayana Mathis.
Panel Discussion For Release of Murray Talks Music
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem — May 25, 2016
Featuring Paul Devlin, Loren Schoenberg, and Greg Thomas / Moderated by Todd Stoll.
Tribute Reading from Murray’s Works
Jazz at Lincoln Center — May 24, 2016
Featuring Various Writers.
“Albert Murray: An American Original” - symposium at Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies
February 13, 2016
All-day event featuring scholars from the around the country.
Keynote address: Herman Beavers, University of Pennsylvania.
