Name: Black Vocal Works: a Celebration of Poetry in Song
Start: 2025-03-08T19:30:00
Location: Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Edmond Rodriguez

Julia Holoman

Hanna Frampton

Lyndsi Maus

Tzvi Bat Asherah

Yining Xie

Jordan Twadell

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

A Black History Month concert featuring works by Grammy-nominated composer Shawn Okpebholo with poetry by Duke University’s Associate Professor of English Tsitsi Jaji. Shepherd School of Music Artist Teacher of Opera Studies Lyndsi Maus performs alongside Shepherd opera students.

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Black Vocal Works: a Celebration of Poetry in Song

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Lord I Just Can’t Keep from Cryin’

An African Love Song

In Flight

To My Little Son (from 5 Art Songs)

Ballad of Birmingham

I Want to die while you love me

Genius Child

Her Eyes, Twin Pools

Travel’s End (from 5 Art Songs) 

The Season of Remembrance

Wade in the Water

Hold Fast to Dreams

An Echo, an Ending

Compensation

Prayer

Desert Song No. 3 “River”