The African American Art Song Alliance Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule
African American Art Song Alliance 2012

The African American Art Song Alliance Conference
“Roots and Branches”

Thursday, February 9

Attendees arrive 4PM,
Crowne Plaza
17941 Von Karman Avenue
Irvine 92614
(949) 863-1999
www.crowneplaza.com/irvineca

Welcome
Registration in Lobby Atrium, Crowne Plaza Hotel
Beginning 3:00PM
Welcome Reception, 5:00PM UCI Art Gallery

Welcome Concert
Africa's Varied Influence
William Chapman Nyaho and Louise Toppin in concert
WSH 7:30PM

Friday, February 10
Flowers
9:00 AM
Plenary Session
Opening Remarks, Darryl Taylor
Welcome, Dean Joe S. Lewis, Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Chronology: Hansonia Caldwell, California State University, Dominguez Hills
9:30
Performance
Contemporary Leanings
Songs of Richard Thompson, Gary Powell Nash, and Adolphus Hailstork

Dream Variations, Richard Thomspon
Raymond Tymas-Jones, tenor and Richard Thompson, piano,
                 
Two Songs (of Paul Laurence Dunbar), Nash
Why Fades a Dream, Nash
Marcia Porter, soprano and Richard Thompson, piano
The Heavens Declare, Adolphus C.  Hailstork
JoAnne Stephenson, mezzo-soprano and Wallace Cheatham, piano
Four Romantic Love Songs
Roderick George, tenor and Fred Dade, piano

10:30 AM
Keynote Address
George Shirley, Joseph Edgar Maddy Distinguished Professor of Music
11:00 AM
Lecture
“The Role of Social Media and PR in the Development and Exposure of African American Performing Artists”
Patrick D. McCoy, Freelance Writer, Radio Host
11:30
Lecture
“The African American Concert Singer: San Francisco 1925-65, In Paradisium”
Bill Doggett, Exhibitions Archivist, and Curator
12:30 PM
Lunch (on your own)
2:00 PM
Performance
Celebrating H. Leslie Adams

Lullaby Eternal (Joette McDonald)
Jennifer Lindsay, soprano and Maria Thompson Corley, piano
Love Memory (Dunbar)
*Night People (McDonald)
Jayme Alilaw, soprano and Maria Thompson Corley, piano
The Wider View

To the Road (Dunbar)
Homesick Blues (Hughes)
Li’l’ Gal (Dunbar)
Love Come and Gone (Georgia Douglas Johnson)
The Wider View (R.H. Grenville)
Love Rejoices (James Dillet Freeman)

Marquita Lister, soprano and Marvin Mills, piano
Hymn to Freedom

Thy Mighty Arm
Lead Gently, Lord
Hallelujah!

Carmen Balthrop, soprano, Roderick George, tenor, and Peter Lightfoot, baritone
UCI Orchestra, Stephen Tucker, conductor

4:00
Lecture
“Representing Women in Three Recent South African Operas”
Naomi André, The University of Michigan
4:30 PM
Performance
Songs from Southeastern Louisiana
Valerie Jones-Francis, soprano and Wilfred Delphin, piano
5:30 PM
Dinner (on your own)
7:00
Performance
Evening Bouquet

Velvet Shoes, White	Sonya Baker, soprano and Margaret Simmons, piano
Nails, White
Mon Pauvre Coeur	Celeste Bembry, soprano and Ann Sears, piano
Daffodils, Hailstork	Brandi Q. Hancock, soprano and Margaret Simmons, piano
Citadel, Still	Celeste Headlee, soprano and Lukas Swidzinski, piano
Winter’s Approach, Still
Club Woman, Motley	Anita Johnson, soprano and Richard Thompson, piano
Daedalus, Fly Away Home, Motley
Mae’s Rent Party. Motley
Miracles, Motley
From Miss Wheatley’s Garden, Powell	Makeda Hampton, soprano and Ann Sears, piano
Worthwhile (Songs of Laurence Hope), Burleigh	Dione Parker-Bennett, soprano and Byron Sean, piano
Kashimiri Song, Burleigh
Three Spirit Songs, Hailstork	Jeanine Wagner, soprano and Margaret Simmons, piano
Candle Lightin’ Time, Coleridge-Taylor	JoAnne Stephenson, mezzo-soprano and Wallace Cheatham, piano
Dreams, Cooper	Albert Lee, tenor and Lukas Swidzinski, piano
Two Songs for baritone, Tillis	Peter Lightfoot, baritone and Richard Alston, piano
The Winding Road, Dett	Ivan Griffin, bass-baritone and Margaret Simmons, piano
God Understands, Dett
Oh Lord, The Hard Won Miles, Dett
Dream Variation, Cooper	Albert Lee, tenor and Lukas Swidzinski, piano
Dreams, Cooper
Sea Calm, Cooper
Among the Fuchsias, Burleigh
Jersey Hours, Kay	Joy Harrell, soprano and Nina Scolnik, piano
“My Legacy” Baity	Gail Robinson-Oturu, soprano and Fred Dade, piano
“Education” Baity
The Breath of a Rose, Still	Wayne Jennings, tenor and Fred Dade, piano
Brown Baby, Still
“Zuihou de Lianqu”, Nash	Anita Johnson, soprano and Richard Thompson, piano
“Mu Gua (The Quince)”, Nash
“Fire of Love and War” Nash - needs cello
“Nie Ni Ren (You and I)”
What lips my lips have kissed, Owens	Jahmaul Abiodun Bakare, tenor and Richard Alston, piano
Euclid Alone
“You Came, Too” Niki Giovanni Songs, Cheatham	Jennifer Odom Cioban, soprano and Wallace Cheatham, piano
“Friendship” Niki Giovanni Songs, Cheatham
“Three Quarters Time” Niki Giovanni Songs, Cheatham
Im Nebel, Owens	Phillip Harris, baritone and Lukas Swidzinski, piano
Songs of Leslie Savoy Burrs	Lisa Edwards-Burrs, soprano
Forever Thine, Dawson	Richard Heard, tenor and Fred Dade, piano
Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back, Dawson
The Rugged Yank, Dawson	Babatunde Akinboboye, baritone and Nina Scolnik, piano
Song of Ruth, Hailstork	Jennifer Lindsay, soprano and Maria Thompson Corley, piano
Slave Song, Hailstork	Trevor Neal, bass-baritone and Wallace Cheatham, piano
Creole Folk Songs, Nickerson	Bonita Hyman, mezzo-soprano and Nina Scolnik, piano
Brown-skinned Gal, Okoye	VaShawn McilWain, baritone and Pheaross Graham, piano
3 Lieder fur eine tiefe Stimme  mit Kavierbegleitung, Op. 47, Owens	Trevor Neal and Wallace Cheatham
Silhouette, Rector	Quentin Brandel, tenor and Victoria Kirsch, piano
Still Here, Rector
Dream Variations, Rector
The Silver Swan, Ingram	Kimberly Davis, soprano and Marvin Mills, piano
Little Lamb, Ingram
Silence, McLin	Yolanda Johnson, soprano and Sean Byron, piano
The Unlucky Apple, McLin
If I could give you all I have, McLin
When I look into your eyes, H. Smith	Darryl Taylor and Brent McMunn
Love’s Apothesis, Thompson	Frances Young, soprano and Richard Thompson, piano
Young, I know why the caged bird sings, Thompson

Saturday, February 11
Branches
(Tribute to Robert Owens)
9:00
Performance
Classically Black – Piano Music by Composers of African Decent
Richard Alston, piano
9:30 AM
Lecture-Performance
“Voodoo by H. Lawrence Freeman: The First African American Opera on Broadway in 1928”
Bruce Faulk, New York University
10:00 AM
Lecture
The Black Composer in Opera
Anthony Davis, University of California, San Diego
10:40 AM
Panel Discussion
Presence of Black Composers in Opera
H. Leslie Adams
Adolphus C. Hailstork
Robert Owens
Richard Thompson
Anthony Davis, moderator
12:00
Performance
Opera excerpts:

Voodoo, By H. Lawrence Freeman	Dione Parker Bennett, soprano and Byron Sean, piano
Vanqui, Leslie Savoy Burrs	Carmen Balthrop, soprano, Kei Akagi, piano and Elie Choate, harp
Costaso by William Grant Still	Albert Lee, tenor, VaShawn McIlwain, baritone, and Brent McMunn, piano
Amistad, Anthony Davis	Marquita Lister, soprano and Richard Thompson, piano

1:00 Lunch (on your own)
3:00
Lecture-Performance
Robert Owens: A Life in Song
Jaime Reimer, sopano, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Byron Sean, piano

"Bright be the place of thy soul" (Lord Byron) from Stanzas for Music
"If" (Dunbar) from Image, Op. 15
"From a dark tower" (Countee Cullen) from Three Countee Cullen Songs, Op. 27
"For a poet" (Cullen) from Three Countee Cullen Songs, Op. 27

3:30
Performance
Robert Owens, Composer
Tearless (Hughes), Op. 9

                  Vagabonds
                  Luck
                  Exits
                  Walls
                  Chippy
                  Dancers
                  Grief
                  Prayer

Phillip Rogers, bass-baritone and Robert Owens, piano

Heart on the Wall (Hughes)

                  Heart
                  Remembrance
                  Havana Dreams
                  Girl
                  For dead mimes

Louise Toppin, soprano and Robert Owens, piano

Rimbaud Cabaret (Arthur Rimbaud)

                  Le Dormeur de val
                  Au Cabaret-Vert
                  Rages de Césars
                  Revé pour l’Hiver

Darryl Taylor, countertenor and Robert Owens, piano

3 Songs (Claude McKay), Op. 41

                  The Lynching
                  If we must die
                  To the White fiends

A Cycle of Six Negro Spirituals

                  The Crucifixion
                  You may bury me in the Eas’
                  Po Mourners got a Home at las’
                  Home in-a dat Rock
                  Calvary
                  Go on, Brother

Donnie Ray Albert, baritone and Robert Owens, piano

Dinner (on your own)

8:00PM
Gala Event
The Music that We Are (poems of Rumi)
Robert Owens, actor and piano

Sunday, February 12
and Roots…Spirituals
10:00AM
Panel Discussion
Art Song and Spiritual Practice
Jacqueline Hairston
Albert McNeil
Roland Carter
Willis Patterson, moderator
12:00PM
Performance
Spirituals as Art Song/Spiritual Art Song
Three Daily Songs, Rison (Hancock/Cornwall)
Sacred Songs, Ellington (Anita Johnson/Thompson)
Spiritual Art Songs, Carter (Gail Robinson-Oturu/Carter)
Give Me Jesus, Curtis (Bonita Hyman/Tucker/cello TBA)
Changed My Name, Curtis (Hyman/Tucker/cellist)
Balm in Gilead (Stephenson/Tucker/cellist)

Departure

[H. Leslie Adams, Henry Thacker Burleigh, William Chapman Nyaho, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Levi Dawson, R. Nathaniel Dett, Duke Ellington, Adolphus C. Hailstork, Ulysses S. Kay, Hale Smith and William Grant Still are featured at AfriClassical.com]