Across the Arts with Patrick D. McCoy

As a part of the 2014 Chamber Music Vocal Matinee Recital Series at the Colour of Music Festival, baritone Darnell Ishmel present at recital at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC.  He is accompanied by pianist Mikael Darmanie and joined by cellist Khary Joyner.

PROGRAM

R. Nathaniel Dett-Hymn to Parnassus

Franz Schubert

Drei Lieder, Der Doppelganger, Der Tod und das Madchen, Der Erlkonig

Gabriel Faure-Au bord du l'eau

Jules Massenet-Elegie

Thomas Kerr-Riding to Town

Coleridge Taylor Perkinson

Melancholy, The Faithless Shepherd

Harry C. Banks, Jr.-A Prayer of Saint Francis

James Weldon Johnson-Go Down Death

Kerr-Great Day

In response to the keynote address by Wayne S. Brown, President and CEO of the Michigan Opera Theatre, our host and Washington Life Magazine performing arts columnist, Patrick D. McCoy moderates a panel discussion culminating the Community Symposium Series of the Colour of Music Festival with Dr. Karen Chandler of College of Charleston, Jennifer Bowman of the Washington based Folger Consort and Festival Founder, Lee Pringle.  The Colour of Music Festival is one that celebrates the contributions and performance of blacks in the arena of classical music.

Culminating the 2014 Community Symposium Series of The Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, SC (October 22-26) was a timely keynote address by Wayne S. Brown, former Director of Opera and Music at the NEA and now President and CEO of Michigan Opera Theatre.  In his address, Brown shares his trajectory in the arena of arts management, its important and passing the torch to the future of the field.  Brown has had considerable experience in the arts, himself first playing cello and singing as a tenor.  his talk comes from a place of sound perspective and in Part 2, his talk culminates in a panel moderated by host and Washington Life Magazine performing arts columnist, Patrick D. McCoy.  Joining the panel is Dr. Karen Chandler of College of Charleston, Jennifer Bowman of the Washington based Folger Consort and Festival Founder, Lee Pringle.  The Colour of Music Festival is one that celebrates the contributions and performance of blacks in the arena of classical music.

The Colour of Music Festival began this week in Charleston, SC. (October 22-26) featuring chamber music performances, organ and voice recitals. Dr. Wayne A. Barr of Tuskegee University opened the High Noon Organ Recital Series in music by Whitlock, J. S. Bach, Ralph Simpson and Vierne. Recorded live at Grace Episcopal Church Charleston.  For more information about the festival www.colourofmusic.org

PROGRAM:

Whitlock: Exultemus

Bach: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, 564

Ralph Simpson: Three Spirituals

Jacob's Ladder

Swing Low

Roll Jordan, Roll

Vierne:

Symphonie III, op. 28

III, Intermezzo

V. Final

Noted composer Dr. Trevor Weston of Drew University drops in discuss his career both as a performer and teacher of music.  Weston will open the Community Symposium Series of the Colour of Music Festival, which will be held October 22-26 in Charleston, SC.

His talk will focus on Charleston's contributions to classical music around the world.

During the broadcast, will feature some of his works,  including his Magnificat.

 

 

Weston began his musical training as a choirboy at the prestigious St. Thomas Choir School in New York City at the age of ten. During high school, he continued his musical development with organ and carillon lessons in Plainfield, NJ. Composition became his primary focus at Tufts University while studying with T.J. Anderson and completing a double major in music and history. Weston completed his graduate work at theUniversity of California, Berkeley where he studied with Richard Felciano and Andrew Imbrie for his M. A. and Olly Wilson, his primary teacher, for his Ph.D. 

 

 

 

Weston is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. 

 

 

 

Read his complete bio:

Soloman Howard joins the show to speak about his trajectory in the arena of opera.  The Morgan University and Manhattan School of Music graduate is currently one of Washington National Opera's rising stars and is set to make his Metropolitan Opera debut this fall!  Currently a member of Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program,a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Soloman Howard is garnering superlatives from the press for his vivid performances on the opera and concert stages.  His voice is called “sonorous” by TheNew York Times, “superhuman” by The Denver Post, and “spectacular” by Maryland Theatre Guide.  Performances of the 2013-14 season include Sarastro in The Magic Flute conducted by Washington National Opera’s Music Director Philippe Auguin, Moser in Verdi’s I Masnadieri with Washington Concert Opera led by Music Director Antony Walker, Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht at Carnegie Hall with Kent Tritle and the Oratorio Society of New York, and a role debut as Colline in La bohème with North Carolina Opera conducted by Robert Moody.  Read more

Anton Armstrong the conductor of the Saint Olaf Choir joins the show to discuss his career and views on Choral Music.  The noted conductor is in Washington at the Chorus America conference.

Terri Allen, Executive Director of the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) and its co-founder Pamela Simonson (with brother Victor Simonson)  drop in on Arts Across America to discuss the role of CAAPA in the community as it strives to "bring color to the classics."  This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the Washington, D. C. area organization, which will kick off the festivities with its Melody of Art Reception on September 17 at The Atlas Performing Arts Center.

When Travis Pratt took the stage on the hit television show "America's Got Talent"  no one one was ready for what happened next.  Approaching the microphone, Pratt dedicated a soaring rendition in his soprano voice of the timeless aria "O mio babbino caro"  by Puccini to his girlfriend, who he then proposed to on national television.

 

Pratt drops in on Patrick D. McCoy to discuss the phenomenon and his introduction to opera and classical music.

The is a not to be missed show confronting the monsters of jealousy and envy in the arts.  On one breath, a person can be praised and revered for the beauty they create, then slandered all on the same breath.  Joining the show to unpack the pain of the green monster called envy is Baltimore based violist Robin Faye Massie-Pighee and St. Louis based emerging modern composer and musician Anthony Stewart.

Stewart is the Digital Composer and Publisher of "Vizual Music: Where Classical and Jazz Meet" .  He produces and distributes classical and jazz compositions in hopes of inspiring more African American youth to embrace an art form that originated in Africa.

 

Massie-Pighee is a professional violist in the Baltimore/D.C. area. She has performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera Orchestra among other ensembles. She performs as Assistant Principal Viola with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and Co-Principal Viola with the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in Philadelphia.