ÁLAMOS PALACIO MUNICIPAL Jueves 24 de enero, 20:00 horas Noche de gospel PROGRAMA I BELIEVE I’LL GO BACK HOME Gospel The Spiritual and the Soul Alexis Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano Earl Hazell, bajo Coro Ars Antiqua Héctor Acosta, director coral y pianista Isaac Herrera, narrador I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus To struggle up a never-ending stair. Inscrutable His ways are, and immune To catechism by a mind too strewn With petty cares to slightly understand What awful brain compels His awful hand. Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing! --“Yet Do I Marvel,” Countee Cullen
I – KEEP YOUR LAMPS Poema “The Poet and His Song” Keep Your Lamps My Lord, What Morning
Paul Laurence Dunbar arr. A. Thomas arr. H.T. Burleigh
Earl Hazell, bajo Coro Ars Antiqua Earl Hazell, bajo
II – JORDAN RIVER Poema “On the Pulse of Morning” Maya Angelou Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano Wade in the Water arr. H.T. Burleigh Alexis Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano Deep River arr. D. Ryan Earl Hazell, bajo I Stood on the River of Jordan arr. M. Hogan Coro Ars Antiqua Here’s One arr. W.G. Still Alexis Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano III – STEAL AWAY Lord, How Come Me Here arr. E. Simpson-Currenton Alexis Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano Balm in Gilead arr. D. Ryan Earl Hazell, bajo Poema “Ain’t I a Woman?” Sojourner Truth Isaac Herrera, narrador Steal Away arr. J. Jennings Coro Ars Antiqua Earl Hazell, bajo Alexis Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano Intermedio IV – LET MY PEOPLE GO Poema “What is the Slave to Frederick Douglass Earl Hazell, bajo the Fourth of July (extracto)” Sinner, Please arr. H. Johnson Alexis Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho arr. Moses Hogan Coro Ars Antiqua Go Down, Moses arr. J. Dean Coro Ars Antiqua Earl Hazell, Bajo V – RIDE ON KING JESUS Lectura de la Plegaria de San Francisco de Asís Isaac Herrera, narrador San Francisco de Asís Sweet Lil’ Jesus Boy R. MacGimsey Alexis Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano Lil’ Boy arr. R. Hayes Earl Hazell, bajo Take My Mother Home arr. H. Johnson Earl Hazell, bajo Ride on King Jesus arr. H.T. Burleigh Alexis Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano VI – I BELIEVE I’LL GO BACK HOME I Believe I’ll Go Back Home/ arr. E. Hazell Earl Hazell, bajo Lordy Won’t You Help Me Alexis Davis-Hazell, mezzosoprano
Earl Hazell y Dr. Alexis Davis-Hazell son cortesía de la casa productora Jazzoperetry, Inc. Esta es una co-producción entre el Festival Alfonso Ortiz Tirado y Jazzoperetry, Inc. Agradecimientos especiales: Maestro Dr. John L Motley (1922 - 2011), First Congregational Church of Harlem, Imamu Amiri Baraka (1934 – 2014), Max Roach (1924 – 2007), Dr. Everett McCorvey and the American Spiritual Ensemble, Dr. Robert C. White, baritone, the Juilliard School, The University of Alabama School of Music