Dr. Samantha Ega lecture, "In Search of Nora Douglas Holt: Missouri Beginnings"

Name: Dr. Samantha Ega lecture, "In Search of Nora Douglas Holt: Missouri Beginnings"
Start: 2026-04-02T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Whitmore Recital Hall

Schedule

Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Whitmore Recital Hall | Columbia, MO

Join our MU School of Music Convocation featuring Dr. Samantha Ege give a talk: "In Search of Nora Douglas Holt: Missouri Beginnings" in Whitmore Recital Hall at 3pm on April 2nd.
Abstract: Nora Douglas Holt remade the world in her own image, radiating and relishing Black women’s ingenuity in all that she touched. Composer, philosopher, Jazz-Age icon, Harlem Renaissance muse, social activist, and pleasure seeker: Holt was all these things and more. In this talk, musicologist and pianist Samantha Ege traces the multifaceted musical socialite's Missouri beginnings.
Bio: Samantha Ege is the author of South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price. She wrote about Nora Holt for the New York Times in an article titled "The Curious Case of a Shape Shifter of the Jazz Age." For her latest recording project, she performs as the soloist on Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto and Orchestral Works with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.