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