2024 Founder’s Concert

Alison Buchanan, Soprano, Robert Sims, Baritone, and Daniel Lockert, Pianist

Saturday, May 18th, 2024 at 3:00 PM
at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave, Berkeley

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Program
Duke Ellington – In the beginning, God (Sims)
Duke Ellington – Come Sunday (Sims)
Ayo Bankole – Adura fun Alafia (Buchanan)
Kwabena Nketia – Wunya Amane A (Buchanan)
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson – Melancholy (Sims)
Betty Jackson-King – In the Springtime (Sims)
Florence Price – An April Day (Buchanan)
Florence Price – We have tomorrow (Buchanan)
Margaret Bonds/Langston Hughes – Minstrel Man (Buchanan)
Margaret Bonds/Langston Hughes – I Too (Sims)
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Buchanan)
Roland Carter – Is There Anybody Here Who Loves My Jesus? (Duet)
Nathaniel Dett – I’m So Glad Trouble Don’t Last (Sims)
Florence Price – Resignation (Buchanan)
Betty Jackson-King – It’s Me Oh Lord (Sims)
Margaret Bonds – You Can Tell the World (Duet)
Uzee Brown – Fix Me Jesus (Buchanan)
Nathaniel Dett – Follow Me (Sims)
Jacqueline Hairston – No Ways Tired (Buchanan)
Jacqueline Hairston – Plenty Good Room (Duet)

This is a FREE concert offered as a gift to the community. Tickets required.

In honor of Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams, founder of Four Seasons Arts in a program of African-American Spirituals and songs by African-American composers.

Dr. Williams was one of the first African-American presenters of a major classical music concert series in the United States and it is to him that we offer this special tribute. His love of classical music began as a child when he attended concerts by legendary artists such as tenor Roland Hayes and contralto Marian Anderson, In 1958, at a time when the classical music world, and much of the rest of society, was racially segregated, he began presenting artists of all races and organizing racially diverse audiences. Over 40-plus years in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, he introduced to the world some of the finest musicians of our time.