WE ARE A FAMILY: GENERATIONS OF MUSIC BY AFRICAN AMERICAN COMPOSERS

February 1 & 2, 2025 at 3pm at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto.

The 2025 program reflects the multi-generational sharing of musical traditions, from spirituals
and songs to concert music and jazz. Composers represented are inheritors of these traditions,
as well as creative innovators: Regina Baiocchi, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Capers,
Jacqueline Hairston, Joshua McGhee, Lena McLin, Zenobia Perry, William Grant Still, and Dolores White.

PREVIOUS CONCERTS:

Click on a date below to view the program from that concert. You may then click on a composition name to view video of that performance.

• February 2025: We Are A Family
• January 2024: What’s Going On: A Concert of Music by African American Composers
• January 2023: Together Again! Celebrating the Music of African American Composers
• January 2020: Hold Fast to Dreams
• October 2019: Tawawa House Opera Concert Performance
• January 2019: Where Freedom Rings: A 10th Anniversary Concert Celebrating the Music of African American Composers
• January 2018: Out of the Blues: The Gift of Song
• January 2017: Let the Knowing Speak
• January 2016: A Musical Celebration of Valerie Capers
• January 2015: Walk Together: A Musical Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr, and the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
• January 2014: Let Freedom Ring: The Resounding Music of African American Composers
• January 2013: Music of African American Composers: The Story Retold
• January 2012: A Musical Sojourn: Two Hundred Years of Music by African American Women and Men
• January 2011: Music by African American Composers: Yesterday and Today
• January 2010: A Concert in Tribute to African American Composers
• January 2009: Palo Alto Performances (program only, no video)