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Young People's Concert: Music Speaks
Sept. 29
Young People's Concert
Music Speaks: Unlocking the Hidden Language of Music
KSO Young People's Concert
Sept. 29, 2021
Tennessee Theatre
 
James Fellenbaum, conductor
Rhea Carmon, Knoxville Poet Laureate
Michael Rogers, baritone
 
IGOR STRAVINSKY    
Greeting Prelude 
 
JOSEPH BRACKETT, JR.
Simple Gifts
 
AARON COPLAND
Variations on a Shaker Melody from Appalachian Spring
 
Original Poetry by Knoxville Poet Laureate, Rhea Carmon
 
"Go down Moses," "Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit," "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See," sung by Baritone, Michael Rodgers
 
FLORENCE PRICE
Concert Overture No. 2
 
GEORGES BIZET
"Votre toast je peux vous le rendre" (Toreador Song) from Carmen, sung by Michael Rodgers
 
GEORGE GERSHWIN
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" from Shall We Dance
 
EDWARD ELGAR
"Nimrod" from Enigma Variations
 
ARTURO MARQUEZ
Conga del Fuego Nuevo
 
VALERIE COLEMAN
Umoja: Anthem of Unity

 

Sponsored by:

Sheena McCall

 
Mike and Carol Connor Family Foundation

      

 

This performance is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission.