History
The Jubilee Trio, with Marion Dry, contralto, Leslie Amper,
piano,
and Robert Honeysucker, baritone, was founded in 1995. The trio's name
was inspired by the Hebrew tradition of the year of Jubilee, when
slaves were freed, debts were cancelled, and wrongs were redressed.
That Jubilee spirit of freedom and equality, embraced by Christianity,
and later adopted by the founding fathers of this country, shapes the
mission of the Jubilee Trio.The Jubilee Trio combines American Art Songs with African-American Spirituals by composers such as Samuel Barber, Margaret Bonds, Harry T. Burleigh, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Lee Hoiby, John Jacob Niles, William Grant Still, and Florence Pride, to create programs celebrating the diversity of our national musical heritage, and offering hope of a genuine community.
The Jubilee trio has performed at such venues as The Museum of Our National Heritage, in Lexington, MA, The Longy school of Music, in Cambridge, MA, Boston College, Harvard University, Bargemusic in NYC, The Worcester Historical Society, Concerts at the Point in Westport Point, MA, the Walker Lecture Series in Concord, NH, and in Strada, Italy. They have also been heard on WGBH Radio in Boston, MA.