Program
Duke Ellington
Black and Tan Fantasy for clarinet and piano
Don Byron
Delphian Nuptials for clarinet and piano
Aruán Ortiz
Pastors Paradox - Part 3: The Dream That Wasn't Meant to Be Ours
Valerie Coleman
Umoja for string quartet
Aruán Ortiz
Episodes of an Unforeseen Departure (World Premiere)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Clarinet Quintet
Performers
Aruán Ortiz
guest pianist and composer
Terrance McKnight
host and performer
Don Byron
guest clarinetist
Oliver Hagen
guest conductor
Ashley Horne
violin
Claire Chan
violin
William Frampton
viola
Wayne Smith
cello
Karen Bogardus
flute
Shelby Blezinger-McCay
percussion
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard (at 135th Street)
New York, NY 10027
About The Performance
The Schomburg Center presents the Harlem Chamber Players 15th Annual Black History Month Celebration. This live music concert will feature the world premiere of Aruán Ortiz’s Episodes in an Unforeseen Departure as well as solo works for piano and music by Valerie Coleman, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Terrance McKnight’s own juxtapositions of Langston Hughes’ poetry as spoken word over piano works by Beethoven.
For more information about this performance, please visit the event website.
Image: Aruán Ortiz / photo by Luciano Rossetti