Series II Program #2 for Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022 at 5:00 PM EST

 

Celebrating Black History Month

 

presented by Court Street Music

and the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library

in Valley Stream, New York

 

with

Helene Williams, soprano

Daniel Hyman, violinist/violist

Leonard Lehrman, pianist/composer

with guest mezzo-soprano, Patrice Eaton


PROGRAM

 

Homage to Charles S. Brown, Excerpts from

     Old Abe Lincoln (Alfred Hayes-Earl Robinson)

     The Triangle Fire (Ellen Frankel-Leonard Lehrman)

5 Piano Pieces by Kevin Scott:

--3 Pieces for Scott [Tinney] (Kevin Scott): Invention, Etude in 15, Morning Pastorale

--2 Pieces for [Stephen] Porter: Schubert's Swan, Ruminations (homage to Beethoven)  

Let America Be America Again (Langston Hughes-Leonard Lehrman)

     Patrice Eaton, mezzo-soprano; [in memoriam:] Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano

2 Pieces by Joseph Jones: 

     Sarabande from Partita for Solo Violin

     Slow Movement from Viola-Piano Sonata

The Hill We Climb (Amanda Gorman-Leonard Lehrman),

     Patrice Eaton, mezzo-soprano

Strange Fruit (Abel Meeropol, aka Lewis Allan),

The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die (Charles Abron-Elie Siegmeister),

Yes No or Maybe (Langton Hughes-Elie Siegmeister)  

2 Songs for Soprano & Violin by Hale Smith:

     After Many Springs (Langston Hughes)

     Fog (Carl Sandburg)

Tell It On and On  (Edith Segal - on Schwerner, Chaney & Goodman)

I HAVE A DREAM Finale (Edward Mabley-Elie Siegmeister, after Martin Luther King   

     Charles Samuel Brown, Mike Niemann, Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus

 

 

 

 

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These programs are made possible with funds

granted from the Maldeb Foundation to

The Professor Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation

for Ethics, Religion, Science & the Arts.   

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PLAN AHEAD:  2022 Schedule

3) Mar. 1 Women's History Month
4) Apr. 5 Jewish Music Month
5) May 3 Maying
6) Jun. 14 Students & Teachers
7) Sep. 13 Birthdays - Ethel Gross, Dvorak, et al