Performers:
The Eastside Preparatory School Choir
David Chaidez, director and Jansen Verplank, keyboard
Yolanda Rhodes, soprano
LaDoris Cordell and Deanne Tucker, vocalists/pianists
Josephine Gandolfi, pianist
Susan C. Brown, violinist
Victoria Ehrlich, cellist
Carol Somersille, clarinetist
featuring compositions by
Margaret Bonds
Valerie Capers
Betty Jackson King
Joshua McGhee
Zenobia Powell Perry
Florence B. Price
William Grant Still
Eastside Preparatory School Choir, David Chaidez, Director
with Jansen Verplank, keyboard, Yolanda Rhodes, Deanne Tucker, and LaDoris Cordell, back-up vocals
II. Portraits in Jazz: Musical Tributes by Valerie Capers
(adapted from the original piano solos)
Valerie Capers, piano, and LaDoris Cordell, vocals
Valerie Capers, piano, John
Robinson III, bass, LaDoris Cordell, Yolanda Rhodes, and Deanne
Tucker, vocals
Yolanda Rhodes, soprano, Deanne Tucker, piano
Homage to William Levi Dawson by Zenobia Powell Perry
Yolanda Rhodes, soprano, LaDoris Cordell, piano
Yolanda Rhode and Picasso Ensemble: Susan C. Brown,
Victoria Ehrlich, and Josephine Gandolfi
V. Song of the Seasons – music and texts by Valerie Capers
Yolanda Rhodes, soprano, Victoria Ehrlich, cello, Josephine Gandolfi, LaDoris Cordell, and Deanne Tucker, pianists
Intermission
VI. from Four Seasonal Sketches by Betty Jackson King
Deanne Tucker, piano
VII. Chamber Music by William Grant Still
1. Folk Suite No. 4 (quartet)
Picasso Ensemble with Carol Somersille, clarinet
Fantasie Negre by Florence Price (dedicated to Margaret Bonds)
Yolanda Rhodes, soprano
LaDoris Cordell and Josephine Gandolfi, piano, four-hands
LaDoris Cordell, Yolanda Rhodes, and Josephine Gandolfi