The Festival’s Masterworks program concludes the series with the Colour of Music Orchestra honoring the legacy of Shirley Verrett.
Kazem Adbullah, Guest Conductor
Kimwana Donor, Soprano
Laquita Mitchell, Soprano
GRIMBERT-BARRÉ TRIO
Romuald Grimbert-Barré violin
Jonathan Grimbert-Barré cello
Maxence Grimbert-Barré viola
Michele Bankole and Henry Clay Middleton, Narrators
Across the Calm Waters of Heaven
by Ahmed Alabaca (b. 1984)
Vissi d’arte,
(from Tosca, Act II:)
by Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
Soul of Remembrance
(from Five Movements in Color
by Mary Watkins (b. 1939)
La mamma morta
(from Andrea Chénier, Act III)
by Umberto Giordano (1867-1948)
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Opus 24
Samuel O. Barber (1910-1981)
I N T E R M I S S I O N
Charlestonia: A Folk Rhapsody
Edmund Thornton Jenkins (1894-1926)
Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked
John Wineglass (b. 1972)
I. The middle Passage: Uprooted
II. Tones of the Rice Fields
III. Lament For Lost Souls
(from CASOP: Requiem For Rice, Mvmt I)
Tribal Triple Concerto for string trio and orchestra
Jonathan Grimbert-Barré (b. 1982)
I. Chalereux et festif
II. Sombre et récitatif
III. Furioso
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.