The Colour of Music Festival Masterworks Finale program features the Festival’s 70+ member orchestra led by Berlin-based Maestro Brandon Keith Brown who returns to the U.S. podium after a five-year hiatus. Along with their colleague violinist, Anyango Yarbo-Daveport, the orchestra will present Brahms’ Violin Concerto, Op. 77 and Florence Price’s The Oak. Price is the first Black woman to have a composition performed by an American orchestra.

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

High Noon Organ Recital with organ virtuoso, historian, and Howard University Master Instructor Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry features a recital on pipe organ underscoring the significance of the organ on historically Black colleges, the first and for some, the only classical instrument afforded to black collegian in the HBCU experience.

Cinq Improvisations                                                                                   

Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)

            II.  Victimae Paschali          

Evening Song                                                                                   

David Hurd (b. 1950)

Prelude and Fugue in C Minor (BWV - 546)                  

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

-       Intervalle   -

Fantasia in F Minor (K. 608)                                                        

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Solemn Voluntary                                                                                       

Robert A. Harris (b. 1939)

Toccata on ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’                                                     

Mark A. Miller (b. 1967)

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

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.

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

Matinée Literary Presentation explores the life and legacy of Fisk Jubilee alum, tenor Roland Hayes. Presented by Dr. Christopher Brooks, author of Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor with special guest Victor Ryan Robertson, tenor.

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

Violinist and conductor Anyango Yarbo-Davenport will lead her colleagues in a special presentation featuring strings and pipe organ. Special guest Mickey Thomas Terry, organist will join the ensemble.

Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Violinist and Conductor
Michael L. Jorgensen, Violin
Mickey Thomas Terry, Organ

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

Matinée Piano and Vocal Recital features two special guest artists―opera star Victor Ryan Robertson, tenor and Elizabeth G. Hill, pianist.

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

Paris-based violinist Romuald Grimbert-Barré will open the evening presenting a moving performance of Poème élégiaque in D minor, Op. 12, by Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe. He will also join the Colour of Music Festival Quartet performing Coleridge Taylor Perkon’s String Quartet No. 1 “Calvary".

A special presentation of his brother Maxence Grimbert-Barré's Cello Quartet will makes its U.S. premiere during this performance.

Mr. Grimbert-Barré will share the stage with violinist Anyango Yarbo-Davenport and pianist Elizabeth G. Hill.

Cello Quartet

Kenneth Law

Ryan Murphy

Ismael Gurrero

Rahel Lugseged

String Quartet 

Romuald Grimbert-Barré, Violin

Michael L. Jorgensen, Violin

Alexandra D’Amico, Viola

Kenneth Law, Cello

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

Panel sheds light on Charleston’s “father of Black classical music” Edmund Thornton Jenkins, a Morehouse College and Royal Conservatory of London alum. The panel explores four of his compositions to be presented by the Colour of Music Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Dr. Karen Chandler, Tuffus Zimbabwe, and Dr. Christopher Brooks will provide historical context to the featured performance (on Nov 17th) and offer thoughts and insights of a classical legacy just beginning to be told.

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

The performance is part of two Colour of Music Festival New York City events, including a program at Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall CUNY June 15, celebrating the first anniversary of the historic Federal Juneteenth holiday.

PROGRAM

The performance is part of two Colour of Music Festival New York City events, including a program at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall June 17, celebrating the first anniversary of the historic Federal Juneteenth holiday.

Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)


Passacaglia Duo for violin & viola


(after George Frederick Handel’s Suite No. 7 in G minor for Harpsichord)

Zoltán Kodály (1882 - 1967)

Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7

I. Allegro serioso, non troppo 

II. Adagio - Andante 

III. Maestoso e largamente, ma non troppo lento - Presto

Valerie Coleman

Umoja for String Quartet

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004)

String Quartet No. 1 “Calvary”

I. Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Allegro vivace

The Colour of Music Festival will present two compositions sure to lift spirits before the official festival season begins throughout Charleston. The evening will feature an arrangement for piano and violin of Igor Frolov’s "Fantasy" on Porgy and Bess and the Colour of Music Festival Quintet performing "Quintet in A Major" by Florence B. Price, one of the most noted Black female composers finally getting the recognition she deserves. Tickets for this event are $25 for CLS Members and $35 for CLS Guests.

Igor Frolov (b. 1937)

Concert Fantasia on Themes From Gershwin’s Opera “Porgy and Bess” 

Op. 19 for Violin and Piano

-pause-

Florence Price (1887-1953)

Quintet in a minor for Piano and Strings

I. Allegro non troppo –

II. II. Andante con moto – 

III. III. Juba – 

IV. IV. Scherzo.

Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi II Finale with Anyango Yarbo-Davenport

Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Violin soloist & Conductor

Valerie Coleman
Umoja

José White Lafitte (1836-1918)
La Bella Cubana

Robert Aldridge (b. 1954)
Tango for Gabriela

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Primavera Porteño

~ Pause ~

Pyotr IIyichTchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Souvenir de Florence
    I.         Allegro con spirito
    II.        Adagio cantabile e con moto
    III.       Allegretto moderato
    IV.       Allegro con brio e vivace

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi I with Guest Conductor William Garfield Walker

William Garfield Walker, Guest Conductor

Romuald Grimbert-Barré, Violin  

Caleb Georges, Viola  

Courtney Jones, Trumpet

Herbert Smith, Trumpet  

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

CHAMBER MUSIC III: WORKS BY MONTGOMERY, PRICE & ARUTIUNIAN

Michael Jorgensen, Violin

James Keene, Violin

Keith Lawrence, Viola 

Kenneth Law, Cello 

Mark Allen, Jr., Clarinet 

Lawrence Quinnett, Piano

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

Chamber Music II: Bach, Mayuzumi & Daniels

Herbert Smith, Trumpet

Courtney D. Jones, Trumpet

Sean Daniels, Featured on the Marimba

Lawrence Quinnett, Piano

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

Chamber Music I: Rachmanioff, Brahms & Menotti

Michael Jorgensen and Romuald Grimbert-Barré, Violin
Basil Vendryes, Viola
Kenneth Law, Cello
Mark Allen, Jr., Clarinet
Elizabeth Hill, Piano 
Shanelle Woods, Mezzo Soprano

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.

Piano and Vocal Recital featuring Elizabeth Hill & Manna K. Jones

Colour of Music Festival Matinee Piano and Vocal Recital Spotlight will feature two special guest artists: Elizabeth Hill and Manna K. Jones.

Elizabeth Hill, Piano

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Prelude Op. 28, No. 23 in F major

Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52

Florence Price (1887-1953)

Fantasie Nègre No. 4 in B minor

Margaret Bonds (1913 – 1972)

Troubled Water (based on the spiritual “Wade in the Water”

Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.