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A Celebration of Black Music II

Photo: Dario Acosta
Up to 80% of the proceeds from the event go to the performers.
Free of charge
Live
Composers
Henry 'Harry' Thacker Burleigh
Florence Price
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
William Grant Still
David Baker
Adolphus Hailstork
Robert Owens
Anthony R. Green
Shawn Okpebholo
Rosephanye Powell
Valerie Capers
Featuring
Ema Nikolovska, 
soloist
Lawrence Brownlee, 
soloist
Thomas Hampson, 
soloist
Howard Watkins, 
soloist
Joseph Joubert, 
composer, soloist

About this event

»I know why the caged bird sings« – it sings of freedom in order not to lose hope. It sings in order to feel the life beyond the bars of its cage. To encourage itself and others. And this is how American composers and authors with African roots sing and write to this day: their subject matter is discrimination and injustice, pride and dignity – but love and separation as well, mourning and joy, belief and hope.

In the second part of »A Celebration of Black Music«, several generations of these artists have their say: from Florence Price and William Grant Still to Tyshawn Sorey and B. E. Boykin. The concert presents a panorama of »Black music« in its countless and fascinating facets.

In collaboration with the Hampsong Foundation.

Supported by the Kühne Foundation, the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, Stiftung Elbphilharmonie and the Förderkreis Internationales Musikfest Hamburg.

This stream is available to watch until June 4, 2022.

Programme

  • 1. Concert – approx. 90 min programme

Repertoire

  1. 1. Henry Thacker Burleigh: Passionale (selection)

  2. Ethiopia Saluting the Colors

  3. 2. Florence B. Price: Sympathy

  4. Hold Fast to Dreams

  5. Song to the Dark Virgin

  6. 3. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Oh What Comes Over the Sea, Op. 57/1

  7. She Sat and Sang Always, Op. 57/4

  8. Life and Death

  9. 4. William Grant Still: Songs of Separation

  10. Song for the Lonely

  11. 5. David Baker: Deliver My Soul / from: Through This Vale of Tears

  12. 6. Adolphus Hailstork: Songs of Love and Justice (selection)

  13. 7. Robert Owens: Three Songs for baritone and piano, Op. 41

  14. 8. Anthony R. Green: Three Quotes of Shakespeare

  15. Sojourner Truth / from: ...All That Is Good…

  16. 9. Peter Ashbourne: Liza / from: Five Songs for soprano and piano

  17. Nobody’s Business

  18. 10. Shawn Okpebholo: Oh, Freedom

  19. 11. Rosephanye Powell: I Want to Die While You Love Me

  20. A Winter Twilight

  21. 12. Valerie Capers: Song of the Seasons (selection)

  22. 13. B. E. Boykin: Three Maya Angelou Songs

  23. 14. Jasmine Barnes: Flowers / from: Songs for the African Violet

  24. 15. Tyshawn Sorey: Inhale, Exhale / from: Cycles of My Being

This performance was filmed at the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany.

This event was recorded live at Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany.

This event is no longer available

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