Music: Sun Dec 26

 

Music for our online Kwanzaa celebration includes solo piano works by composers of African descent following Spirituals and a song of unity in the struggle for civil rights as Gathering Music. Read on for programming details.

 

Gathering Music: Iconic Singers of African Descent

Marian Anderson:
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

 

Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle
There Is a Balm in Gilead

 

Sweet Honey in the Rock:
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around 

 

Opening Music: Adam Kent, piano
"The Monk" from Portraits in Jazz

                                    Valerie Capers

 

Offertory:
Tumbao

                                    Tania León (b. 1943)

 

Meditation:
From Cinnamon Grove

            II. Adagio cantabile

                                    R. Nathaniel Dett

 "When thou commandest me to sing, it seems that my heart would break with pride; and I look to thy face, and tears come to my eyes." from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

Interlude:

Tangamerican

                                    Margaret Bonds

Postlude:
From In the Bottoms

            "Juba Dance"

                                    Dett