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OBERLIN COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT
Warner Concert Hall Friday, September 29, 1978 8:30 P.M.
* Five Pieces for Piano Wendell Logan (b. 1940)
Sonata No. 2 George Walker (b.1922) Adagio non troppo Presto Adagio Allegretto
Twenty-Four Negro Melodies[2] Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1917) I Was Way Down A-Yonder Goin’ Up The Bamboula
The Cascades Scott Joplin (1866-1917) Frances Walker, piano
INTERMISSION
The Easy Winners Scott Joplin
The Entertainer Scott Joplin Arr. by D.S. DeLisle
The Cascades Scott Joplin Arr. by E.J. Stark
Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin
PERFORMERS Jean Hasse, piccolo/flute Lorecia Cox, violin Maria Vankalken, clarinet Linda Harris, violin Robert Howard, trumpet David Rogers, viola Michael Mossman, trumpet Aaron Henderson, cello Owen Glendening, trombone Daniel Savage, bass Dianne Cooper, violin André Whatley, drums Marianne Smith, violin Tim Shafer, piano
*First Performance[3] |
[1] Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, writer. COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, S.: 24 Negro Melodies (F. Walker). Performed by Frances Walker. Recorded 1978. Orion Records, CD. Thanks to Marquis Music for permission to post the music.
[2] Walker-Slocum recorded Twenty-Four Negro Melodies with Orion Records (Programs from Non-Oberlin Recitals, Frances Walker Slocum Papers, RG 30/222, Box 1, O. C. A.).
[3] Walker-Slocum debuted Wendell Logan’s “Five Pieces for Piano” at this concert. Logan, a colleague of Walker-Slocum, likely trusted her greatly to perform his new work (Frances Walker-Slocum, A Miraculous Life (Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006), 150).