Vivre Musicale: 'Humanity' With Songs of Margaret A. Bonds Feb. 8, 7 PM, Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach & Feb. 9, 8 PM, Location TBA

Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-1972) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a Complete Works List and a Bibliography by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com  The Centennial of her birth is March 3, 2013

Through musical genres such as jazz, blues, afro-cuban music, and gospel that have historically communicated longings of the human heart and, coupled with the mainstream and the classical, this concert will highlight the “other,” giving voice to the voiceless, and imbuing the powerful with a soft-blue human hue.

Friday, February 8th
Bethesda-by-the-Sea (in Parish Hall)
141 South County Road
Palm Beach, Florida 33480
7:00pm

Saturday, February 9th
TBA
8:00pm

*Forum pre-concert chat for 2/8 & 2/9 begin at 6pm and 7pm respectively

Concert Program:

Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan

~Latino Music Selections~

Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropol
Selections from Shadow of the Blues by John Musto

Silhouette
Could Be

The Negro Speaks of Rivers poem by Langston Hughes music by Margaret Bonds

~Gospel impromptu~

The Lord is my Shepherd for vocal ensemble by John Rutter
Dark Wood for bassoon, violin, cello, and piano by Jennifer Higdon
Hometown Glory & Turning Tables  by Adele

~Latino Music Selections~

Five Creek-Freedmen Spirituals for voice, (violin), and piano by Margaret Bonds

Selections from Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs from the Collected poems of Langston Hughes by Ricky Ian Gordon

Joy (Gordon)
Dry Bones (Bonds)

Genius Child (Gordon)
Lord, I just can’t keep from cryin’ (Bonds)

My People (Gordon)
Sit down Servant (Bonds)

Kid in the Park (Gordon)
I’ll Reach to Heaven (Bonds)

Prayer (Gordon)
You can tell the World (Bonds)

~Gospel Impromptu~

I Know where I’ve been from Hairspray music by Marc Shaiman/lyrics by Scott Whitman
God so Loved the World for vocal ensemble by John Stainer

Artists:

Jouvanca Jean-Baptiste, soprano; Kellie Nicole Rentz-Bruneau, soprano; Leslie Gonzalez, mezzo-soprano; Monica Hidalgo, mezzo-soprano; Jorge L. Toro, tenor; Steven D. Booth, tenor; Marcus Jordan, baritone; Marques Jerrell Ruff, bass-baritone; Gralin Vinning, piano; Daniel Hursey, bassoon; Vijeta Sathyaraj, violin; Jared Cooper, cello; Darren Matias, piano