Society of American Music Conference: Vivian Perlis Concert
Item details
Date
March 13, 2026 7:30PM
Location
Camp Concert Hall
Name
Society of American Music Conference: Vivian Perlis Concert
Description
The Society for American Music is delighted to feature the Legendary Ingramettes at its annual Vivian Perlis Concert. The Legendary Ingramettes bring six decades of music, sixty-five years of song, and generations tied together through the force of will of a matriarchy of powerful Black women. The African-American gospel group was founded by Maggie Ingram (who passed away in 2015) as a way to keep her family together through hardship and taken up by her daughter Almeta Ingram-Miller as a way to continue Maggie’s legacy. Inspired by the Black gospel male quartets of the 1940s and ‘50s, now known as Richmond, Virginia’s “First Family of Gospel Music” The Legendary Ingramettes bring roof-raising harmonies and explosively powerful vocals, all driven by the voices of women backed by a rock-solid house-shaking rhythm section.
This concert series is part of the annual conference for the Society of American music and it honors Vivian Perlis, whose publications, scholarly activities, and direction of the Oral History of American Music (OHAM) project at Yale University have made immeasurable contributions to our understanding of American composers and music cultures. The Society for American Music is grateful to the Virgil Thomson Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund, the University of Richmond Department of Music, the Humanities Resource Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, and to members of the Society for their generous support.
This performance is registration-only, and no tickets will be issued or required for entry.
Tickets cannot be purchased online at this time. Please note that, beginning 90 minutes before the performance, tickets can only be purchased in-person at the Modlin Box Office.
Please email the box office if you need further assistance. We do our best to respond to all inquiries within 1 business day.