Voice recital in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Program

Charles Schmidt, piano

Bring Me Little Water, Silvy — Huddie Ledbetter, arr. Moira Smiley (1888-1949)

Michelle Crouch, Maureen Holmes, Sonja Hurty and Sangeetha Rayapati

His Eye is on the Sparrow — Civilla D. Martin/Charles H. Gabriel(1866-1948)/(1856-1937)

Rachel Vickers, mezzo soprano

Furie terribili from Rinaldo — G. F. Handel (1685-1759)

Shelley Cooper, soprano

From Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan — John Corigliano (b.1938)

Chimes of Freedom
Forever Young

Come Sunday from Black, Brown and Beige — Duke Ellington (1899-1974)

Michelle Crouch, soprano

One day — Matisyahu and The Smeezingtons, arr. Jon Arterton

Maureen Holmes, Sonja Hurty and Jon Hurty
Ben Holmes, piano

Hammer and a Nail — Amy Ray and Emily Saliers

Sangeetha Rayapati and Shelley Cooper
Erin Larkin and Thea Gonzales, guitar

Feet o’ Jesus — Florence Price (1887-1953)

Samuel Cho, tenor

From Three Patterson Lyrics — Hale Smith (1925-2009)

The World Bows Down to Beauty (Sonnet I)

Sangeetha Rayapati, soprano

Death of an Old Seaman — Cecil Cohen (1894-1967)
A Song Without Words — Charles Brown (1922-1999)
Riding to Town — Thomas H. Kerr, Jr. (1932-2004)

John Pfautz, tenor

The Cooking Song from We’ve Got our Eye on You — Nkeiru Okoye (b. 1972)

Michelle Crouch, Sangeetha Rayapati and Maureen Holmes

Lift Every Voice And Sing — James Weldon Johnson/J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954)/(1871-1938)

Performers and audience

Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
let our rejoicing rise,
high as the list’ning skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea
sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
let us march on till victory is won.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
thou who has by thy might,
led us into the light,
keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee,
lest our hearts, drunk with the wine
of the world, we forget thee;
shadowed beneath the hand,
may we forever stand,
true to our God,
True to our native land.