Songs of African American Composers, UC Berkeley Oct. 3

(Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork, African American Composer and Professor, born 1941, is profiled at the website AfriClassical.com)

The University of California Berkeley's 55^th Annual Noon Concert Series, sponsored by the Department of Music, presents a free concert of African American Vocal Music on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007 from 12:15-1:00 P.M. at the Hertz Concert Hall. Soprano Candace Johnson will perform a program called “Streams of Conscience: Songs by African American Composers". The composers are Olly Wilson, Adolphus Hailstork, Noel da Costa, Undine Smith Moore, Jacqueline Hairston and Hall Johnson.

Candace Johnson earned her Doctorate in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan and is a Chancellor's post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Music of UC Berkeley. Event Contact: 510-642-4864

Candace Johnson
Olly Wilson
Undine Moore
Jacqueline Hairston
Hall Johnson
Black Composer