Margaret Bonds: Negro Speaks of Rivers
Jessie Montgomery's: I Want To Go Home
Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson: Lift Every Voice and Sing
Florence Price: Piano Sonata in E Minor
Welcome to my life
I was first introduced to the power of music as a 3-year old sitting in church with my parents. I remember keenly watching the pianist play the hymns each week before going home to try and figure out what I had just heard. Since then, I've never lost the urge to discover all that I can about music and how it works.
However, as I've grown older, I've also given more thought to the ways that music functions as part of our larger society. This stems in many ways from the time I spent in college studying broadcast journalism (my second major) and working as a field reporter for the local news station. Those experiences opened my eyes to the shocking lack of awareness that many people have surrounding not only world issues, but issues facing their local communities.
I attribute this mainly to a failure of all parties to clearly communicate with each other. Music can bridge these gaps and provide all of us with a digestible way to plug into the world outside of our doors. It is for this reason that I devote a significant portion of my programming to music that speaks towards current social issues, rather than limit myself solely to the wonderful, though sometimes overplayed traditional repertoire. It may be an unreachable aspiration, but I aim to be a conduit for positive social change with every program that I learn.
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Beethoven Weary Blues
Beethoven Sonata No. 30 Op. 109
Keyboard Partita No. 1 in B-flat BWV 825 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Prelude Allemande Corrente Sarabande Minuet I Minuet II Gigue
Wafting Clouds Trevor Weston (b. 1967) Clouds In Theory Nia Imani Franklin (b. 1993)
El Albaicín (From Iberia suite) Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Homage Zenobia Powell Perry (1908-2004) Troubled Water Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)
Virtuoso Etudes George Gershwin (1898-1937) (arr. Earl Wild)
Embraceable You
Lady Be Good
Fascinatin Rhythm
George Frideric Handel (1685- 1759) fromGiulio Cesare
Recit: E pur cosi in un giorno Aria: Piangeròla sorte mia
Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) L’ Automne L’ Énamourée Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes
Joseph Marx (1882-1964) Waldseligkeit Nocturne Hat dich die Liebe berüht
Pause
Hermit Songs Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory Church Bell at Night Ita’s Vision The Heavenly Banquet The Crucifiction Sea-Snatch Promiscuity The Monk and his Cat The Praises of God The Desire for Hermitage Spirituals
Florence B. Price Arr.(1887-1953) My Soul’s Been Anchored in de Lord
Hale Smith Arr. (1925-2009) This Little Light of Mine
Recital with Rodrick Dixon, tenor