MOUNTAIN LECTURES
ULTRAMARINE AND SIENNA: DUMAS’ RIPOSTE
Text by Zsuzsanna Ardó
“My father was a mulatto,
my grandfather was a Negro,
and my great-grandfather a monkey.
You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”)
—Alexander Dumas père
Ultramarine and Sienna: Dumas’ Riposte by Roomful of Teeth
MassMoca, August 2016.
Roomful of Teeth continues to program Ultramarine and Sienna: Dumas’ Riposte for many of its concerts throughout the US, and gave its European premier in Sweden last year http://www.roomfulofteeth.org/roomful.
Ultramarine and Sienna: Dumas’ Riposte: European Premiere of Recording
European Parliament. Brussels, September 2016.