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Chamber 4: Vibrant Echoes

Name: Chamber 4: Vibrant Echoes
Start: 2024-04-27T19:30:00
Location: Tougaloo College

Mississippi Symphony Orchestra

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Valerie Coleman’s now-famous Umoja for woodwind quintet and her Red Clay and Mississippi Delta open an evening of music that all seems to have been written for Tougaloo College’s Woodworth Chapel. Works by Mississippi-born William Grant Still reflect roots and Harlem blues, while the jazz piano ebullience of James P. Johnson’s Yamekraw is unleashed by piano soloist Stephen Sachs. The Native-American and African American infused melodies of Dvorak...

Program

Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet No. 12 (American Quartet)

Composer

Valerie Coleman - Umoja

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James P. Johnson - Yamekraw

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Valerie Coleman - Red Clay & Mississippi Delta

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Participants

Shellie Kemp

Violin