Members
Performance History
New BMRE: The Black Composer in the 16th-18th Centuries
New BMRE: Afro-Caribbean Influence
New BMRE: The Black Composer and the Solo Voice
New BMRE: Black Women Composers from Parlor to Podium
New BMRE: The Black Composer and the Concerto Form
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble, October 2004, Harris Theater
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble, March 2006, Harris Theater
New BMRE: Music for String Quartet by Black Composers
New BMRE: The Black Composer and the String Quartet
New BMRE: Three Sunday Afternoons in May

New BMRE: The Black Composer in the 16th-18th Centuries

Center for Black Music Research
Columbia College Chicago

New Black Music Repertory Ensemble
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Principal Conductor and Artistic Director

Featuring Ars Musica Chicago
Andrew Schultze, Artistic Director

Lisa Flores, soprano
Nadine Gomez, soprano
Christine Schultze, soprano
Lydia Snow, soprano
Juliann Zavala, mezzo-soprano Sidni Kiely, alto
Gregory Peebles, tenor
Martez Rucker, baritone
Andrew Schultze, bass
Donald Neale, harpsichord

Program

Kromanti (18th century)Anonymous

Twelve Country Dances for the Year 1779 (1779)Ignatius Sancho (1729–80)

Cutford Heath Camp

Strawberrys and Cream

The Royal Bishop

Duchess of Devonshires Reel

Mungo's Delight

Bushy Park

The Complaint (1769)Ignatius Sancho

Anacreon Ode XIII (ca. 1769)Ignatius Sancho

Esa noche yo baila (17th century)Anonymous

El Congo (1789)Anonymous
Transcribed by Bishop Martinez Companon (1789)

El son de la Má Teodora (17th century)Teodora Ginés (ca. 1572–1625)

Romance (ca. 1780)Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–99)

Arette d'Iphigenie en Tauride (ca. 1780)Chevalier de Saint-Georges

String Quartet no. 1 in C Major, op. 1 no. 1 (1780)Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Ashley Horne, violin
Rachel Handlin, violin
Reneé Baker, viola
Ed Moore, cello

Intermission

All'hor ch'ignuda (1552)Vicente Lusitano (ca. 1522–after 1561)

Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (1813)José Maurício Nuñes-Garcia (1767–1830)

Dies sanctificatus (1793)José Maurício Nuñes-Garcia

Ave Maria (from Matinas do Natal,1799)José Maurício Nuñes-Garcia
Arranged by Andrew Schultze

Tota pulchra es Maria (1783)José Maurício Nuñes-Garcia

Laudate pueri (1813)José Maurício Nuñes-Garcia

The event was presented in collaboration with Chicago Park District's South Shore Cultural Center, with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; the Illinois Arts Council, an agency of the state of Illinois; and a congressionally directed grant administered by the Institute of Museum and Library services. Additional operating funds were provided in part by the Sara Lee Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation with in-kind support from American Airlines.