UPCOMING FESTIVAL EVENTS
UPCOMING FESTIVAL EVENTS
Colour of Music Festival Masterworks
Cost: $25-54 + fees | Time: 7:30 PM (PST)
Festival Masterworks Finale
Colour of Music Festival Orchestra
Leslie B. Dunner, Guest Conductor
Angela Brown, Soprano
Romuald Grimbert-Barré, Violin
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Violin
Kenneth Law, Cello
Leonard O. Hayes, Piano
Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
Symphony No.1 in G Major
Allegro Presto
Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
Act II, Scene I: Aria from L’Amant Anonyme
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64
Allegro molto appassioinato
Andante
Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace
- Intermission -
Ludwig van Beethoven (1833-1897)
Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano, in C Major, Op. 56
Allegro
Largo (attacca)
Rondo alla (polacca)
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
High Noon Organ Recital
Cost: $16.50 - $27.50 | Time: 12 NOON (PST)
Fisk University organist Anthony Williams
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Impromptu in F Major, Op. 78, No. 1
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
Prière, Op. 37, No. 3
César Franck (1822-1890)
Pièce Héroîque
Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941)
Adagio and Fugue in F Minor (1999)
Ralph Simpson (b. 1933)
Two Spirituals
Jacob's Ladder
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Fela Sowande (1905-1987)
Yoruba Lament
Florence Price (1887-1953)
First Sonata for Organ (1927)
I. Introduction-Allegro
II. Andantino
III. Finale
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Matinee Literary Presentation
Cost: $16.50 - $27.50 | Time: 2:00 PM (PST)
Christopher Brooks and Rufus Jones present Jones’ iconic book Maestro Abroad Negro at Home: The Dean Dixon Story
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Chamber Music IV: Percussion, Viola & Vocal Spotlight
Cost: $16.50 - $38.50 | Time: 7:30 PM (PST)
Chamber Music IV
Edward E. Callahan, Piano
Leonard O. Hayes, Piano
Angela Brown, Soprano
Kenneth Law, Cello
Basil Vendryes, Viola
Sean Daniels, Marimba
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Élégie for soprano, cello & piano
Nkeiru Okoye (b. 1972)
Cerise’s Story from When the Caged Bird Sings
Charles Knox (b.1929)
Music for Viola & Percussion
Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929-1997)
Concertino for Xylophone
I. Allegro with piano Accompaniment
II. Adagietto
III. Presto
Sean Daniels (b.1966)
Dawne For Marimba
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Panel Presentation
Cost: $16.50 - $27.50 | Time: 2:00 PM (PST)
Pipe organ panel presentation with Karen Chandler and Fisk University organist Anthony Williams
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Chamber Music III: All-Female Virtuosi
Cost: $16.50 - $38.50 | Time: 7:30 PM (PST)
All-Female Virtuosi String Chamber Orchestra
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Violin and Conductor
VIOLIN I
Chenoa Murphy
Alberta Douglas
Kimberly Simpkins
Megan Jenifer-Harris
LaTannia Ellerbe
VIOLIN II
Sylvia de la Cerna
Sheyna Burt
LaToya Patterson
Theresa Fox
VIOLA
Alexandra D’Amico
Diane Phoenix Neal
Caroline Jones
Priscille Michel
CELLO
Adrienne Taylor
Rahel Lulseged
Cl’erida Eltime
BASS
Naomi Sarchendt
Sophia Scarano
KEYBOARD
Theresa Keene
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
String Sextet in D minor
“Souvenir de Florence” (Movement I)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315
"Winter" (L'inverno)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Deep River
Arr. Shirley J. Thompson
Stephan Koncz (b. 1984)
A New Satisfaction (Gymnopédie No. 1)
Kenji Bunch (b.1973)
String Circle: I. Lowdown
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Primavera Porteño
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Matinee Piano & Vocal Recital
Cost: $16.50 - $27.50 | Time: 2:00 PM (PST)
Edward E. Callahan, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in D Minor (Well Tempered Clavier, Book II)
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Fantasy in F Minor (Opus 49)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit
I. Ondine
Joseph Joubert
His Eye is On The Sparrow
- Pause -
Angela M. Brown, Soprano and Edward E. Callahan, Accompanist
Richard Danielpour (b. 1956)
Selections from A Woman's Life
I. Little Girl Speakings
II. Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All
III. They Went Home
IV. Come. And Be My Baby
Daniel Schnyder (b. 1961)
My Boy from Charlie Parker's Yardbird
Richard Danielpour (b. 1956)
Three Prayers from Margaret Garner
Ease Yourselves
He Is By
Epilogue
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Chamber Music II: Colour of Music Sextet Spotlight
Cost: $16.50 - $38.50 | Time: 7:30 PM (PST)
The second of two spotlight performances opening the Colour of Music Festival’s 2023 Sacramento residency.
Segment I
Romuald Grimbert-Barré, Ashley D. Horne, Violin
Basil Vendryes, Alexandra D’Amico, Viola
Kenneth Law, Anthony De Peña, Cello
Segment II
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Romuald Grimbert-Barré, Violin
Basil Vendryes, Alexandra D’Amico, Viola
Kenneth Law, Anthony De Peña, Cello
Shirley J. Thompson (b. 1958)
Semplice Sempre for String Sextet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
String Duo No. 1 for Violin and Viola in G Major, KV 423
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Rondeau. Allegro
- Pause -
Edmund Thornton Jenkins (1894-1926)
Reverie Phantasy
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
String Sextet in D minor “Souvenir de Florence,” Op. 70
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.
Chamber Music I: Colour of Music Quartet Spotlight
Cost: $16.50 - $38.50 | Time: 7:30 PM (PST)
One of two spotlight performances opening the Colour of Music Festival’s 2023 Sacramento residency.
Romuald Grimbert-Barré, Violin
Ashley D. Horne, Violin
Keith Lawrence, Viola
Anthony De Peña, Cello
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004)
String Quartet No. 1, “Calvary”
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro Vivace
Shirley J. Thompson (b. 1958)
String Quartet No.1
I. Meno Mosso
Il. Espressivo
Ill. Attacca
IV. Charisimo
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
String Quartet No. 12, in F major, Op.96
“American Quartet”
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Lento
III. Molto vivace
IV. Finale: vivace ma non tropp
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Masterworks II: Colour of Music Festival Orchestra
Cost: $24 - $54 | Time: 8:00 PM
Brahms’ Violin Concerto
Under Baton of Maestro Brandon Keith Brown
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Violin
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.
Brandon Keith Brown, Guest Conductor
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Violin
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
Ballade in A minor, Op. 33
Florence B. Price (1887-1953)
The Oak
- Intermission -
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Concerto in D major Op.77
I. Allegro non troppo (D major)
II. Adagio (F major)
III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace – Poco più presto (D major)
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Organ Recital
Cost: $16.50 - $27.50 | Time: 12:00 noon
Meet the artist post performance reception included in ticket purchase.
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.
Masterworks I: Colour of Music Festival Chamber Orchestra
Cost: $16.50 - $38.50 | Time: 7:30 PM
An evening premiere of four of Edmund Thornton Jenkins’ orchestral works.
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.
Literary Presentation: Roland Hayes, American Tenor
Cost: $16.50 - $27.50 | Time: 2:00 PM
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.
Colour of Music Virtuosi
Cost: $16.50 - $38.50 | Time: 7:30 PM
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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.
Méditation (from Thaïs Act II)
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Adagio in G minor (for Strings and Organ)
Tomaso Albinoni (1671 - 1751)
Arr. Remo Giazotto
La Bella Cubana
José White Lafitte (1836 – 1918)
Souvenir de Florence
Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Adagio cantabile e con moto
III. Allegretto moderato
IV. Allegro con brio e vivace
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.
Vocal & Piano Recital: Victor R. Robertson and Elizabeth G. Hill
Cost: $16.50 - $27.50 | Time: 2:00 PM
Matinée Piano and Vocal Recital features two special guest artists―opera star Victor Ryan Robertson, tenor and Elizabeth G. Hill, pianist.
Elizabeth G. Hill, Pianist
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Etude-Tableaux in C minor, No. 1, Op. 39
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Three Visions
William Grant Still (1885-1978)
I. Dark Horsemen
II. Summerland
III. Radiant Pinnacle
Victor Ryan Robertson, Tenor
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Excerpts)
Anthony Davis (b. 1951)
Shoot your shot
You are not empty
Malcolm, who have you been?
We have been blind
I know that you all hate me
The Saint of Bleeker Street
Gian Carlo Menooti (1911 - 2007)
Avete torto!" From, “Gianni Schicchi”
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
I Dream, a Rhythm and Blues Opera (Excerpt)
Douglas Tappin
Victory by Love
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Chamber Music Spotlight
Cost: $16.50 - $38.50 | Time: 7:30 PM
A debut performance at City of West Sacramento Hall Galleria
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.
Poème élégiaque in D minor, Op. 12
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Fantasy on Themes from Porgy & Bess, Op. 19,
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Arr. Igor Frolov
Cello Quartet: Foue miniatures pour 4 cello Op. 26
Maxence Grimbert-Barré (b. 1996)
Oblivion
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Arr. Patricio. Villarejo
Fuga y Misterio
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004)
String Quartet No. 1, “Calvary”:
III. Rondo: Allegro Vivace
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.
Edmund Thornton Jenkins Panel
Cost: $16.50 - $27.50 | Time: 2:00 PM
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.
Dr. Karen Chandler is Associate Professor Emerita in the Arts Management Program at College of Charleston.
Tuffus Zimbabwe is Saturday Night Live’s keyboardist and the great nephew of Edmund Thornton Jenkins.
Dr. Christopher Brooks is Professor of Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor.
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Masterworks
Cost: $34-54 | Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
Downtown Sacramento
916.808.5181
The Festival’s Masterworks program concludes the series with the Colour of Music Orchestra honoring the legacy of Shirley Verrett.
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
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Colour of Music Festival Literary Spotlight Honoring Shirley Verrett
Cost: FREE | Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: The Guild Theater
Oak Park
888.512.9835
Authorized co-biographer Dr. Christopher Brooks will discuss the illustrious career of soprano Shirley Verrett. I Never Walked Alone: The Autobiography of an American Singer book signing immediately following presentation.
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Colour of Music Festival Chamber Music Series Spotlight
Cost: $15-30 | Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: The Guild Theater
Oak Park
843.608.8470
Colour of Music Festival Chamber Music Series Spotlight features Paris-based Grimbert-Barre Trio
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Colour of Music Festival Octet
Cost: $10-35 | Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Mondavi Center
Vanderhoef Theater
UC-Davis
530.285.0992
Colour of Music Festival Octet will perform a special chamber presentation of the Mendelssohn Octet
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Matinee Piano and Vocal Recital Series II featuring Kimwana Doner and Leonard Hayes
Cost: $15-30 | Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: The Guild Theater
Oak Park
843.608.8470
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
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Colour of Music Festival Virtuosi All-Female Chamber Orchestra
Cost: $15-30 | Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: The Guild Theater
Oak Park
843.608.8470
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.
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, Director - Soloist
Karl Jenkins (b. 1944)
Palladio–Concerto grosso for string orchestra
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Autumn
I. Allegro
II. Adagio Molto
III. Allegro
Winter
I. Allegro Con Molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro
I N T E R M I S S I O N
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Vocalise in e-Minor Op. 34 No. 14, for violin, piano & strings
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Oblivion
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Primavera Porteña
Verano Porteño
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.
Matinee Piano and Vocal Recital Series I featuring Laquita Mitchell and Kyle P. Walker
Cost: $15-30 | Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: The Guild Theater
Oak Park
843.608.8470
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
Pause
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
Performance time is approximate and subject to change slightly as programs are performed.