Furthering a focus on the music of Florence Price, Lara Downes turns to the composer’s pupil, Margaret Bonds, on this program with Nicole Cabell. Long-unpublished works receive premiere performances alongside “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” and other songs, and Downes also brings miniatures on the themes of love, life and laughter.

Program

Florence Price: Remembrance
Clarice Assad: A World of Change
Dobrinka Tabarovka: Simple Prayer for Complex Times
Karen Tanaka: Earth
Amy Beach: Under the Stars
Margaret Bonds: “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” and other songs, including unpublished works in premiere performances

Billie Holiday: “God Bless the Child” (arr. Jed Distler),  “Don’t Explain” (arr. Jed Distler) and Billie Holiday: “Ain’t Nobody’s Business” (arr. Jed Distler)
Debbie Friedman: “Laugh at All My Dreams” (arr. Jeremy Siskind)
Missy Mazzoli: A Map of Laughter
Florence Price: Piano Sonata in E minor

Admission Cost

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