PROGRAM

This concert is presented in collaboration with the Morton Theatre Corporation.

Montu Miller, Master of Ceremonies

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Misero! O sogno, K. 431

Margaret Bonds (1913–1972): Three Dream Portraits
“Minstrel Man” (Langston Hughes)
“Dream Variations” (Langston Hughes)
“I, too, sing America” (Langston Hughes)

Franz Liszt: (1811–1886): Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270
“Pace non trovo”
“I vidi in terra”
“Benedetto s’il giorno”

Florence Price (1887–1953): Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Price: Four Encores
“Tobacco” (Graham Lee Hemminger)
“A Flea and a Fly” (Anonymous)
“‘Come, come,’ said Tom’s Father” (Thomas Moore)
“Song of the Open Road” (Ogden Nash)

Price: The Poet and His Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Joshua Stewart, tenor
Elena Minko*, Liza Stepanova, and James Weidman, piano

INTERMISSION

“Summertime”

“Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?”

“Give me Jesus”

“De puis longtemps” (Aria from The Anonymous Lover by Joseph Bologne Le Chevalier de

Saint-Georges)

“What a Wonderful World”

Joshua Stewart, tenor
James Weidman, piano

Nkululeko Zungu: Projects (2024), World Premiere
Poem by Lemuel LaRoche.

Lemuel LaRoche, poet
Emily Elmore, flute*
Clarissa Tamara and Alexis Boylan, violin*
Rogelio Bonilla and Nina Nagarajan, viola*
Michael Farrick and Iris Marcipar, bass*
(Athens Hip-Hop Harmonic Collaboration)

William May (b. 1988): Freedom Songs (2024), World Premiere

Squallé, Hip-Hop artist
Sean Smith and Ori Kang, violin*
Anna Murphy, viola*
William Slater, cello*
(Athens Hip-Hop Harmonic Collaboration)

* denotes CMA Academy participant