The hand on the left is that of LaDoris Cordell, and on the right, that
of Josephine Gandolfi. The two women will be among the performers in
"Out of the Blues: The Gift of Song." Photo by Laurie Naiman
Wed. Jan. 24, 2018
By Renee Batti
The musicians and guest artists of the African
American Composer Initiative are set to deliver another rousing set of
concerts next weekend celebrating the music of such legendary composers
as Billy Strayhorn and Thelonius Monk as well as contemporary composers,
performing works ranging from spirituals and jazz to original modern
compositions and genre-blending arrangements.
The ninth annual benefit concerts, "Out of the
Blues: The Gift of Song," will feature vocal and instrumental music dawn
from "the traditions of spirituals, jazz, blues, popular, and concert
music," says pianist Josephine Gandolfi of Menlo Park, who with Judge
LaDoris Cordell and Deanne Tucker co-founded the African American
Composer Initiative.
They will be performed on Saturday and Sunday,
Jan. 27 and 28, at 3 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center of Eastside
College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto.
The AACI presents programs devoted to music by
African American composers. In addition to Strayhorn and Monk, composers
include William Grant Still and Florence Price, and contemporary
composers Valerie Capers, Regina Baiocchi, Roxanna Wright, Andre Meyers,
John Robinson, Charles Lloyd and Charles Brown. Music by some of the
founders of the spirituals preservation movement, including Roland
Hayes, Hal Johnson and Harry Burleigh, also will be performed,
according to Ms. Gandolfi.
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