Concert Program

TOGETHER WE RISE

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 7:30pm

Sandra Levine Theatre at the Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts & Civic Engagement

Christopher James Lees, conductor

Dr. Shawn-Allyce White, narrator

Donté Washington, speaker

reading: “Paul Robeson” by Gwendolyn Brooks

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Overture to Fidelio, Opus 72

MALEK JANDALI Elegy - World Premiere performance

reading: Excerpt from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

CARLOS SIMON Portrait of A Queen

Dr. Shawn-Allyce White, narrator

reading: Excerpt from The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

NIA IMANI FRANKLIN Chrysalis Extended

reading: “Won’t You Celebrate With Me” by Lucille Clifton

DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN La, La, La, La