Festival Masterworks Finale

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Fisk University organist Anthony Williams

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Christopher Brooks and Rufus Jones present Jones’ iconic book Maestro Abroad Negro at Home: The Dean Dixon Story

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Chamber Music IV

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Pipe organ panel presentation with Karen Chandler and Fisk University organist Anthony Williams

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All-Female Virtuosi String Chamber Orchestra

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The second of two spotlight performances opening the Colour of Music Festival’s 2023 Sacramento residency.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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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

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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.

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The Festival’s Masterworks program concludes the series with the Colour of Music Orchestra honoring the legacy of Shirley Verrett.

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

Colour of Music Festival Chamber Music Series Spotlight features Paris-based Grimbert-Barre Trio

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Colour of Music Festival Octet will perform a special chamber presentation of the Mendelssohn Octet

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Colour of Music Festival Matinee Piano and Vocal Recital Series will feature two special guest artists: 

Kimwana Doner, Soprano

Leonard Hayes, Accompanist

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)

Ah! Perfido (Op.65)

Pause

Giuseppe Verdi ( 1813 – 1901)

L’esule

Pause

Hall Johnson (1888 – 1970), Arr.

City Called Heaven 

Margaret Bonds (1913 – 1972), Arr. 

He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands

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Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi All-Female Chamber Orchestra performs a special chamber presentation honoring legendary California native Shirley Verrett and Georgia “Mother Rose” West, founder/owner of The Underground Book Store, and mother of former two-term Sacramento Mayor and NBA star Kevin Johnson.

Colour of Music Festival Matinee Piano and Vocal Recital Series will feature two special guest artists: 

Laquita Mitchell, Soprano and Kyle P. Walker, Pianist

Antonin Dvorak (1841- 1904)

Song to the Moon              
from Rusalka          

Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)

L’Automne

L’Enamourée

Si mes vers avaient des ailes

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

All mein gedanken

Allerseelen

Cäcilie

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Florence Price (1887-1953)

Sympathy

Hold Fast to Dreams

William Grant Still (1895- 1978)

Weeping Angel (Grief)

Here’s One

Hale Smith arr. (1925-2009)

This Little Light of Mine

Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

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