Music: Sun Jan 16

 

Music by composers of African descent to celebrate MLK Day: read on for programming details, and stay tuned for spoken introductions.

 

Gathering Music: Adam Kent, piano

Cinnamon Grove

            IV. Allegretto (on lines from a song in Religious Folk Songs of the Negro)*
*"Oh, the winter'll soon be over, children, Yes, my Lord."

                                                R. Nathaniel Dett

Take Nabandji (Southeast African)

The Bamboula (African Dance)

                                    arr. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

 

Opening Music:
Pastime Rag No. 3

                                                Artie Matthews

 

Meditation:
Sophisticated Lady

                                                Duke Ellington

 

Interlude:
Deep River (Traditional African American)

                        arr. by Coleridge-Taylor

 

Postlude:

Birmingham Breakdown
                                                Ellington