Lazarus Ekwueme
Lazarus Ekwueme | |
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Born | Lazarus Edward Nnanyelu Ekwueme 28 January 1936 |
Occupations |
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Relatives | Alex Ekwueme (brother) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Thesis | Ibo Choral Music: Its Theory and Practice (1972) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Music |
Sub-discipline | African musicology |
Lazarus Edward Nnanyelu Ekwueme
Biography
Lazarus Ekwueme was born in Oko,
While studying in Britain, he embraced the theatre and he was an actor in some African films produced by the African Service of the
In 1966, he went abroad to obtain a post graduate degree in
As a music scholar, he explored distinctive indigenous African rhythm and melody in some songs of the New world and American music, a theme that was one of the vocal points of his research efforts. As a researcher, he spent time studying musical patterns of Africans, Caribbean and African Americans. He noticed the similarities in ways in which African Americans in Louisiana and Africans in Dahomey sing songs. Also, the importance and employment of music in cardinal events in the lives of Africans and those in diaspora is a theme prevalent in many of his research efforts.[7]
Personal life
Ekwueme is a younger brother to the late former Nigerian Vice President Alex Ekwueme.[1]
Works
Books and articles
- Teasers: Poems, proverbs, and puns, 1993
- Choir training and choral conducting for Africans. 1993
- Essays on the Theory of African Music, 2004
Choral compositions
- "Missa Africana"
- "A Night in Bethlehem" (1963)
- "Piano Concerts in Re" (1962)
- "Rhapsody Nigeriana"
- "Hombe" (Kenyan Folk Song) (1968)
- "Beware" (Negro Spiritual)
- "Zidata Mo Nso nke Gi"
- "Nwa n’akwa akwa" (1972)
- "Elimeli" (1979)
- "Nne n’eku nwa"
- "Obi Dimkpa" (1980)
- "Ote nkwu"
References
- ^ a b Olawoyin, Oladeinde (20 November 2017). "Former Vice President, Alex Ekwueme, is dead". Premium Times Nigeria.
- ^ Adeoye, Gbenro (23 February 2020). "Dad could stay up all night composing music – Prof Laz Ekwueme's son". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ Adekunle, Edwina (13 February 2016). "Professor Lazarus EN Ekwueme". onlinenigeria. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ "Meet Prof. Lazarus Edward Nnanyelu Ekwueme. He is popularly known as Laz Ekwueme, a musicologist, composer, scholar and actor". Leadership Scorecard. 20 July 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ Leslie R. Saunders; Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko, "Conversation on African Music", Music Educators Journal, Vol. 71, No. 9, May, 1985.
- ^ Citation of Prof Ekwueme, NNMA.
- ^ Lazarus E. N. Ekwueme, "African-Music Retentions in the New World", The Black Perspective in Music, Vol. 2, No. 2 Autumn.