Ritz Chamber Players: 'Road To Freedom' 7:30 PM Wednesday, February 19, 2014, Free Admission With Reservation

Black History

As we celebrate the 50th Year of the Voting Rights act we look back through the generations people of diverse African diaspora backgrounds and traditions have found spiritual fulfillment through works of music, both in a religious context and through the transporting power of the communal concert experience. This concert Road to Freedom explores the African-American contributions to American music through Dvořák’s belief that “the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called the Negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.” Audiences will delight in this incredible program with the stunning Dvořák’s Piano Quintet and Black composer Samual Coleridge Taylor expressive Clarinet Quintet!

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet, Op.10

Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81

Andre Previn Four Songs

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Screams Echo Text by Bobbie O’Connor, Original Music by Tahirah Whittington

Terrence Wilson – Piano

Terrance L. Patterson – Clarinet

Kyle Lombard – Violin

Amyr Joyner – Violin

Richard Brice – Viola

Tahirah Whittington – Cello

Alison Buchanan – Soprano

Kenyada Williams – Actress

Bobbie O’Connor – Narrator