The Colour of Music Festival expanded Chamber Orchestra led by Maestro Julius P. Williams highlights Black composer Edmund Thornton Jenkins’ contributions to both classical music and the Festival’s home base of Charleston, South Carolina. Compositions include four of Jenkins’ works―Rhapsodic Overture, a California premiere, his original composition Charlestonia: A Folk Rhapsody, A Prayer, guest appearance by Victor Ryan Robertson, Tenor and his Clarinet Concerto featuring LeTriel Monique White.
Julius P. Williams, Guest Conductor
Victor Ryan Robertson, Tenor
LeTriel Monique White, Clarinet
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
Hiawatha Wedding Feast: Onaway! Awake, beloved!
Edmund Thornton Jenkins (1894-1926)
The Prayer
Rhapsodic Overture
- Intermission -
Clarinet Concerto
Charlestonia: Folk Rhapsody
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.