Susanne Mentzer Voice Studio Recital

Collaborator

Taylor Chan, piano

Program

Black Composers

Florence Price (1887–1953) - Arkansas
Songs to the Dark Virgin (1935)
     text by Langston Hughes: The Weary Blues
Night (1946)
     text by Louise C. Wallace
Melissa Dufort, mezzo-soprano
Kenzie Alberts, soprano

Cecil Cohen (1894–1967) - Chicago, IL
Death of an Old Seaman (1935)
     text by Langston Hughes
Alaska Coombes, mezzo-soprano

Willam Grant Still (1895–1978) - Mississippi
Grief (1953)
     text by LeRoy V. Brant
Anna Carney, soprano

Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989) - Virginia
Love Let the Wind Cry (1977)
     text taken from Sappho
Come Down Angels (1978)
     Traditional Spiritual
Stella Hannock, mezzo-soprano
Stacee Firestone, soprano

Mark Fax (1911–1974) - Baltimore, MD
Cassandra’s Lullaby
     from A Christmas Miracle (1958)
     text by Owen Dodson
Cassandra Dixon, soprano

Margaret Bonds (1913–1972) - Chicago, IL
Winter Moon (1936)
     from Songs of the Season
     text by Langston Hughes
Anna Carney, soprano

H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932) - Cleveland, OH
For You There is No Song
     from Five Millay Songs (1960)
     text by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Creole Girl
     from Nightsongs (1961)
     text by Leslie Morgan Collins
Amazing Grace (1992)
     text by H. Leslie Adams
Nina Jones, mezzo-soprano
Stacee Firestone, soprano
Emma McAlister, soprano

Quinn Mason (b. 1996) - Dallas, TX
Black Widow (2021)
     text by Kalena Bovell
Stella Hannock, mezzo-soprano

-Intermission-

Latin Composers 

María Grever (1885–1951) - Mexican-American
Júrame (1926)
Ernesto Lecuona (1895–1963) - Cuban
Me Has Dejado (1956)
Megan Mateosky, mezzo-soprano

Xavier Cugat (1900–1990) - Cuban-American
Tonight (1939)
Alaska Coombes, mezzo-soprano

Asian Composers

Michael Ching (b. 1958) - Hawaiian
Dater #41: Overthinker
     from Speed Dating Tonight! (2013)
Nina Jones, mezzo-soprano

Adam Gwon - Chinese-Jewish-American
Calm
     from Ordinary Days
Emma McAlister, soprano

Felix Jarrar - Palestinian-Sri Lankan-American
Love me like a dog
Alexa Rosenberg, mezzo-soprano

Finale

Scott Joplin (1868–1917)
Slow Drag
     from Treemonisha (1913)
Susanne Mentzer Voice Studio
featuring
Stacee Firestone, soprano
Melissa Dufort, mezzo-soprano

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