Carl MaultsBy
Valerie Coleman
William Grant Still (1895-1978) is profiled at AfriClassical.com,
which features a comprehensive Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de
Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com
Quintet of the Americas
Carl MaultsBy's "The Journey" and "Kum-Ba-Ya, Marcus"
Valerie Coleman's "Afro-Cuban Concerto"
William Grant Still's theme song for the 1939 World's Fair
Barbara Harbach's "Maya Angelou" from Freeing the Caged Bird
and poetry by Maya Angelou and Paul Laurence Dunbar
Quintet of the Americas, Queens’ renowned
woodwind quintet, will present a concert featuring two works by Carl MaultsBy - The
Journey, for woodwind quintet, African and Latin percussion, and trap drum,
in three movements: Procession from the Motherland
Through the Middle Passage to the Americas, Spiritual, and Shout,
and Kum-Ba-Ya, Marcus, for wind
quintet and narrator, which provides a glimpse of Marcus Garvey, the proponent
of Pan-Africanism and Black Nationalism. The Quintet will be joined by three
guest percussionists and Broadway actor Charles Wallace who will narrate and
read related poetry.
The program will include a contemporary quintet, Afro-Cuban Concerto by Valerie Coleman
of Imani Winds, as well as Barbara Harbach's Freeing the Caged Bird. Mr. Wallace will recite I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya
Angelou and Sympathy by Paul
Laurence Dunbar.
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