{"id":425,"date":"2009-02-23T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/concert-featuring-works-by-african-american-composers\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:59:12","slug":"concert-featuring-works-by-african-american-composers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/concert-featuring-works-by-african-american-composers\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert featuring works by African American Composers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_CVEzz0Co-pg\/SaJNwb5DPKI\/AAAAAAAAAj4\/CXl95-gH_Jc\/s1600-h\/DSCN1175.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 190px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_CVEzz0Co-pg\/SaJNwb5DPKI\/AAAAAAAAAj4\/CXl95-gH_Jc\/s200\/DSCN1175.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305888805511969954\" \/><\/a><br \/>Tonight&rsquo;s performance with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/psalmistcj\" target=\"_blank\">Candace Johnson<\/a> (Soprano) was a great success!&nbsp; Despite having only had a short amount of time to prepare some rather challenging music, we gave a great performance.&nbsp; The audience was thrilled, and actually stood to their feet after each piece!&nbsp; Candace put together an incredible program of art songs by African-American composers and a series of gospel songs and hymns.&nbsp; Feels like the start of something BIG!&nbsp; I had such a great time and lots of fun working with her and definitely look forward to the next time! :&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The program:<\/p>\n<p>Program featuring works by African-American composers &amp; Hymns<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part I &ndash; <\/strong>Classical Works<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lyric for Truelove<\/strong> Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Consciousness Streams<\/strong> Jacqueline Hairston<br \/>  <em>On Consciousness Streams<br \/>  Thou Alone Canst Inspire<br \/>  Season of Remembrance<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>From Lyric Suite<\/strong> Robert Morris (b. 1941)<br \/>  <em>Gospel Blues (I&rsquo;m So Glad)<br \/>  Juba (Ev&rsquo;ry Time I Feel the Spirit)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a Need<\/strong> Olly Wilson (b. 1937)<\/p>\n<p>~ pause ~<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II &ndash; <\/strong>Hymns &amp; Gospel Songs<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Blessed Assurance<\/strong> Fanny Crosby\/Phoebe Knapp<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Order My Steps<\/strong> Glenn Burleigh<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Great is Thy Faithfulness<\/strong> Thomas Chosholm\/William Runyan<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Oh How I Love Jesus<\/strong> Traditional Hymn<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>More Than Wonderful<\/strong> Lanny Wolfe<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>His Eye is on the Sparrow<\/strong> C.D. Martin\/Charles Gabriel<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>My Tribute<\/strong> Andra&eacute; Crouch<\/p>\n<p>The past week was particularly busy with teaching and performing.  Several friends came to performances this week, including Jackie and her family, Louis and his friend, Paisley and Gerald, Kevin, Marci and her granddaughter, two of my aunts and uncles, Sonia and Branice (if I missed your name, please forgive me!).  We performers are thrilled to see people we know and love in the audience (hint, hint&#8230;), and appreciate when you&#8217;re able to enjoy our performances : ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&rsquo;s performance with Candace Johnson (Soprano) was a great success!&nbsp; Despite having only had a short amount of time to prepare some rather challenging music, we gave a great performance.&nbsp; The audience was thrilled, and actually stood to their feet after each piece!&nbsp; Candace put together an incredible program of art songs by African-American composers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}