Concertmaster & Friends

February 1 at 7:30pm

Samford University Brock Hall

Dr. Roderick George, tenor

Dr. Anthony Pattin, piano

*Due to an injury, Concertmaster Daniel Szasz will no longer be performing in this concert.

Thanks to concert sponsor Debbie Reid.

Margaret Bonds:Three Dream Portraits (Poems by Langston Hughes) for voice and piano

I. Ministrel Man

II. Dream Variation

III. I, Too

William Grant Still: Summerland for piano solo

George Walker: Prelude and Caprice for piano solo

Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag for piano solo

R. Nathaniel Dett: Juba Dance (from the Suite In the Bottoms) for piano solo

Adolphus Hailstork: Two Romantic Love Songs (on poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar) for voice and piano

I. Invitation to Love

II. Longing

Margaret Bonds: Spiritual Suite for piano solo

I. Valley of the Bones

II. The Bells

III. Troubled Water

Four Spirituals for voice and piano

I. trad./arr. Jacqueline B. Hairston: Guide My Feet

II. trad./arr. Harry T. Burleigh: Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child

III. trad./arr. Roland Marvin Carter: Steal Away to Jesus

IV. trad./arr. Francis Hall Johnson: Ride On, King Jesus!