Listening to Tom-Tom at Caramoor
Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY
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.
Previous events
Darryl Yokley, saxophone
Recital with Jeryl Cunningham-Fleming
Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church, 12 Mt Morris Park W, New York, NY
Featuring Jeryl Cunningham, soprano and Kyle P. Walker
Andrea Powe, soprano Felicia Grosvenor, soprano Livingston Holloway, tenor Antonio Watts, baritone Bernard Holcomb, tenor Clayton Williams, baritone Elmer Hammond, organ
Trios and solo selections with Amadi Azikewe, violist and Anthony McGill, clarinetist
Noonday Recital with Patrice Eaton, mezzo soprano
Art songs inspired by poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
The Concert Solo Spiritual
Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church, 12 Mt Morris Park W, New York, NY
The Spiritual As A Solo Art Song featuring : Jasmine Muhammad, Soprano Patrice P. Eaton, Mezzo-Soprano George Johnson lll, Tenor Wayne Arthur Paul, Baritone Kyle P. Walker, Piano
The Harlem School of the Arts presents: The Harlem Chamber Players
HSA Theatre at The Harlem School of the Arts, 645 St. Nicholas Ave, New York NY
Beethoven: Op. 109 Beethoven: Variations on God Save the King Wo0 78 Bonds: Troubled Water Still: Incantation and Dance
with, Terrance Mcknight, Amadi Azikewe, and Hassan Anderson
Harlem Chamber Players: 12th Annual Black History Month Celebration
7 Variations on God Save the King WoO 78....Beethoven/Langston Hughes arranged by Terrance McKnight String Quartet in G Major....Florence Price String Quartet No. 1....George Walker INTERMISSION Heaven Medley....Duke Ellington, Joseph Joubert, Hall Johnson My God Is So High....arranged by Hall Johnson Concert Variations on "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho"....Joseph Joubert There is a Balm in Gilead....arranged by Joseph Joubert Every Time I Feel the Spirit....arranged by Joseph Joubert
Featuring Terrance McKnight, host and performer Kyle Walker, piano Ashley Horne, violin Claire Chan, violin Amadi Azikiwe, viola Wayne Smith, cello Joseph Joubert, piano Renay Peters Joubert, soprano
A Langston Hughes Song Revival
Union County Performing Arts Center: Hamilton Stage, 360 Hamilton St. , Rahway, NJ
Performances alongside Terrance Mcknight (WQXR), Ashely Jackson (Harpist), Malcolm Merriweather (baritone)
I Too Sing America - Margaret Bonds Song to a Dark Virgin - Florence Price Minstrel Man - Margaret Bonds Dream Variation - Margaret Bonds The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Howard Swanson Note on Commercial Theatre - Gershwin Prelude Melody No. 17, arranged - T.McKnight Demonstration - Beethoven, Piano Sonata 13, 2nd mvmt, arranged -T.McKnight Life is Fine - Beethoven, Bagatelle Op. 126 #1, arranged - T.McKnight American Variations - Beethoven 'God Save the King', arranged - T.McKnight Weary Blues - Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30, mvmt. 1, arranged T.McKnight
Johannes Brahms and Florence B. Price Piano Quintets
WNYC & APOLLO THEATER PRESENT APOLLO UPTOWN HALL THE STRATEGIC KING: MLK'S VISIONARY LEADERSHIP
Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 27 No. 1 with poetry performed by WQXR's Terrance McKnight
Program TBA
Harlem Chamber Players at Children's Village
Harlem Commonwealth Council, 361 W. 125th Street, New York, NY 10027
Solo and chamber works alongside Amadi Azikiwe, violist
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 Op. 109 Bonds: Troubled Waters
Colour of Music Masterworks Concert
Colour of Music Festival Orchestra Chelsea Tipton II, conductor
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Opus 24 by Samuel O. Barber (1910-1981) Laquita Mitchell, Soprano
Ennanga For Harp, Orchestra and Piano by William Grant Still (1895-1978) Jordan Thomas, Harp
Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: A Requiem For Rice by John C. Wineglass (b. 1973)
- The Middle Passage: Uprooted II. Tones of the Rice Fields III. Lament for Lost souls
Bach to BlackNotes Solo Piano Recital
Belmont University- Harton Recital Hall, 1900 Belmont Blvd, Nashville, TN
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
Recital with Rodrick Dixon, tenor
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
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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