"An Evening with Black Composers"
Rosalyn W. Floyd, piano”, Friday April 22nd, 2005 
at Government House beginning at 8:00 p.m. 

Programme

 

Ragtime

Elite Syncopations
Bethena 
The Cascades

 Scott Joplin
(1868 – 1917)
Absolute Music

Adagio in f-minor

 Chevalier du Saint-George
(1739 – 1799)

Sonata in e- minor

Andante-Allegro 
Andante
Allegro

 Florence B. Price
(1888 –1953)
INTERMISSION
Program music

In the Bottoms
Honey 
Barcarolle
Juba Dance

 R. Nathaniel Dett
(1882 – 1943)

Phantom Chapel 

 William Grant Still
(1895 – 1978)
West African tunes/Spirituals from 24 Negro Melodies 

Bamboula 
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel

 Samuel Coleridge Taylor
(1875 – 1912)
Jazz

The Single Petal of a Rose from Queen’s Suite 
Reflections in D 

 Duke Ellington
(1899-1974)
Synthesis

Troubled Water 

 Margaret Bonds
(1913 – 1972)

Donation: $25:00
Ticket information: Box Office: COB Music Department: 302-4512/558-7570
E-mail: artistsguildinternational@yahoo.com

Please note: Dr. Floyd will conduct a master class/lecture on Saturday April 23, 2005 at Government House 12-2p.m. imparting her knowledge and experience with promising and passionate piano hopefuls. This is free and open to the public. All students of the piano and music enthusiasts should be attendance for both events.

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