The program highlights works by African-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, African-American composers George Walker and William Grant Still, and the world premiere of a song cycle, Le Deuil des roses qui s’effeuillent, by Haitian-Canadian composer David Bontemps based on poems by Jacques Roumain whose 80th anniversary of his passing is being commemorated.

Distant Echoes of Africa

Coleridge-Taylor: Noveletten Nos. 3 and 4
David Bontemps: Le Deuil des roses qui s’effeuillent
William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Spirituals (arr. M. Hogan & H. Bégin) :
– Deep River, Give Me Jesus, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, He’s Got the Whole World In His Hand