Friday, April 14, 2023, 7:30 pm
Cincinnati Music Hall
John Morris Russell, conductor
Donald Lawrence, featured guest artist
George Shirley, tenor
Members of the Nouveau Program
Marion Peraza, Artistic Advisor
Classical Roots Community Choir
Jason Alexander Holmes, Interim Resident Conductor
“Dance” from Othello Suite by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson
“Every Time I Feel the Spirit” from Three Spirituals for Orchestra by Adolphus Hailstork
We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace by Undine Smith Moore
Deep River by Traditional, arr. Sonia Morales-Matos
Oh, Freedom by Traditional, arr. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
“Hallelujah!” from The Cry of Jeremiah by Rosephanye Powell
INTERMISSION
Selections by Donald Lawrence (subject to change):
The Blessing of Abraham
The Best is Yet to Come
Encourage Yourself
Healed
When the Saints Go to Worship
Jehovah Sabaoth (God of Angel Armies)
Matthew 28
Lift ev’ry voice and sing,
‘Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on ‘til victory is won.
