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Dr.
Composition
of The
World's First Bag Pipe Opera, 'TULSA'
dedicated to the thousands of unknown Blacks racially holocausted
by the City of Tulsa in the
ethnic cleansing of Greenwood for transformation into a rail, industrial,
and warehouse district for the profit of Tulsa's oil-wealthy civic
leadership
to promote enactment of CONGRESSIONAL
DECLARATION
to obtain full
compensation for Greenwood:
As
Dr. Kerr was a famous Scots Presbyterian Minister and Moderator of the
American daughter church of the Established Church of Scotland,
an article, "History's
Secret" about the 1921 Tulsa Race War and Dr. Kerr's involvement
appeared on the 10 February 2002 issue of Scotland
on Sunday, Scottish
Sunday newspaper:
www.scotlandonsunday.com/spectrum.cfm?id=153422002
A
young Scottish composer, Lindsay Davidson was greatly taken with
the holocaust of the Greenwood Blacks as told through the account of a
Scots Presbyterian minister
who acted on the basis
of his Reformed
Christian convictions
in the 'equality of all believers'
derived from the teaching of
the Great
Reformer John Knox.
In
particular, Lindsay Davidson
noted the continuing
injustice to
the oppressed
Greenwood Black
People and
the obstinate 84
year refusal
of the
City of
Tulsa and
the State
of Oklahoma to
compensate them
for the
damages deliberately
inflicted as city
policy during
the 1921
Tulsa Race
War: "A
very important point,
which was
not missed
by me,
was the
fact that
no apology or 'official' movement
to acknowledge
the Tulsa
Race War has
been made,
and indeed that the
City and
'upstanding' members of the community actively covered up and
belittled this happening."
Lindsay
Davidson proposed that an opera "be
made about
the Tulsa
tragedy. I
have thought
about this carefully
-- it is
a responsible
idea, it
furthers the cause
of justice
and the
development of
a raceless
society."
Pipes
were chosen
as the principle instrument for this opera in memory of the
Scottish origins of Dr. Kerr and his Presbyterian
Church.
Inspired
by Dr.
Kerr's own
personal courage,
Scottish sense of
justice, and
his struggle to
achieve substantive
social justice
for the oppressed Black
people of
Greenwood, Lindsay
Davidson has transformed
Dr. Kerr's
account into
the world's
first bag pipe
opera --
expressly dedicated to
all the Greenwood Blacks continually denied justice by the oil-wealthy
City of Tulsa for eighty-four years:
The
moral goal of this opera to fight
racialism with
music and
to promote
through music
substantive social
justice for
'the least'
of Jesus'
racially oppressed
brothers (Matthew
25:40) in Greenwood.
A
Scots nobleman, the Baron of Prestoungrange, is sponsoring the world
premier of this Opera in mid-June 2005
at Prestonpans (ten
miles outside Edinburgh on the coast of the Firth of Forth) at
the Prestoungrange
Arts Festival
Society. A
27th July 2004 decision
by his Barons Court authorised the performance of the Opera as a
re-enactment of the evidence witnessed by Dr. Kerr describing the gross
miscarriages of justice inflicted upon the Greenwood Blacks in Tulsa in
1921
Further
details on the world premier will be forthcoming from the Baron's
web-site: www.prestoungrange.org/prestoungrange/index.html
Lindsay
Davidson hopes that this Opera "TULSA"
may be taken on tour to the United States to inform Americans about
the continuing denial of justice and full compensation to the racially
oppressed Greenwood Blacks by
the oil-rich City of Tulsa on
the basis of the City's
official lie of
a 'Negro Insurrection'.
Lindsay
Davidson believes that the operatic telling of the tragedy of the
Greenwood Blacks will mobilise all decent Americans to petition their
Congressmen and Senators for the full Congressional Investigation of the
1921 Tulsa Race War:
The
goal of The World's First Bag Pipe
Opera is enactment of the Congressional
Declaration so
ardently desired by Dr. Charles W. Kerr:
Politically repudiating
the City of Tulsa's official lie of a 'Negro Insurrection' and the City's
murderous armed suppression of this completely fictitious 'Negro
Insurrection' --
to satisfy the whim of Tulsa's wealthiest citizens at the Police
Station to 'put down' the Black population and to clear out the Blacks
from Greenwood for transformation into a rail, industrial, and warehouse
district.
Enactment
of this Congressional Declaration will
empower the Greenwood Blacks still greatly racially oppressed by
the City of Tulsa to obtain substantive justice against Tulsa's City
Government in the American Federal Courts under Sec 1 of the Federal 1870
Ku Klux Act (42 U.S.C.A. §1983)
Further
information about the composition of this cutting-edge opera may be found
at the following web-sites:
Lindsay Davidson's web-site
under 'Opera': www.lindsaydavidson.co.uk
"Oklahoma! How
the World's
first-ever bagpipe
opera will
be set
in America:
Story of
US race
riots to
be backed
by skirl
of pipes": www.sundayherald.com/3
3392
"Scots composer breaks new
ground"- www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,944708,00.html
"A Scot
Presbyterian minister-hero":
www.witherspoonsociety.org/scot_in_tulsa.htm
"Tulsa -- Like
You've never
Heard it Before": www.pcusa.org/oga/perspectives/mayjune03/tulsa.htm
www.pcusa.org/oga/perspectives/may03.htm
"Global Hit":
www.theworld.org/latesteditions/2
0030509.html
"Global Hits:
Lindsay Davidson":
www.theworld.org/globalhits/2003/05/09.html
"Lindsay Davidson":
www.smic.org.uk/html/Davidson.html
American poems by Tom Hubbard: http://www.star.ac.uk/messages/13.html
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