New BMRE: Black Women Composers from Parlor to Podium
Center for Black Music Research
Columbia College Chicago
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble
Music from the Helen Walker-Hill Collection
CBMR Library and Archives
Program
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1947)Irene Britton Smith (1907–1999)
Five Pieces for B-flat Clarinet (1993)Dolores White
Down Hearted Blues (1923)Lovie Austin (1887–1972 and Alberta Hunter (1895–1984)
Stay: A Torch Ballad (1936)Elizabeth Handy (d. 1939)
Pentasketch for piano trio (1992)Regina Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)
Energico from Memories for piano trio (1981)Lettie Beckon Alston (b. 1953)
Intermission
Pulsations for solo violin (1974, rev. 1993)Lettie Beckon Alston
Three Pieces for Violin and Piano (1966–67)Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940)
Fantasy-Toccata for piano (1996–97)Dolores White
Bus Stop (2000)Mary Watkins (b. 1951)
Las Tarantulas for cello and piano (1992)Dolores White
Spring Intermezzo from Four Seasonal Sketches for piano (1955)Betty Jackson King (1928–1994)
Angel Mother (1899)Nettie Taylor/H. C. Cayson
Godmother’s Lesson from Gbeldahoven (1996–1997)Regina Harris Baiocchi
Songs of LoveLena Johnson McLin (b. 1928)
Silence (1987)
The Unlucky Apple (1987)
If I Could Give You All I Have (1986)
The Year's at the SpringLena Johnson McLin
Call JesusLena Johnson McLin
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 Chicago Community Trust, and the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation.
