Sunday, February 23, 2025

Malmgren Series: Celebrating African-American Composers
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Setnor School of Music choral ensembles and student soloists celebrate Black History Month with music by Hailstork, Price, Powell, Garrett, and more.

Setnor School of Music students and faculty present a special concert highlighting solo, chamber, and choral works by African-American composers. The Hendricks Chapel Choir will perform Praise the Lord by Florence Price, and the Concert Choir will offer Rosephanye Powell's setting of Langston Hughes' text, To Sit and Dream. Together they will give a reprise of Marques L. A. Garrett's Song of Life. The program will conclude with the combined choirs leading the audience in James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson's Lift Every Voice and Sing.