Sunday, December 20, 2009

ContraCostaTimes.com: Music of African American Composers Jan. 17 & 24

(Margaret Bonds)

ContraCostaTimes.com
Performing Arts Concert Series: 'Art for Goodness' Sake'
Sunday, Jan 17 (2010)
3:00p at Eden United Church of Christ, Hayward, CA
The opening concert for the series will be held on Sunday, January 17, at 3pm and features American Lyric Tenor, Lee Steward, singing songs by Schubert, L. Boulanger, and H. T. Burleigh. Proceeds go to the Eden Medical Center Foundation. Admission price is $15. Eden UCC is located at 21455 Birch Street, near the corner of Mission Blvd. Price: $15.00 Phone: (510) 582-9533

A Concert in Tribute to African American Composers
Sunday, Jan 24 (2010) 3:00p to 5:00p at Performing Arts Center, Eastside College Preparatory School, East Palo Alto, CA
Solo piano, two-piano, cello-violin-piano ensemble, and the vocal performance of acclaimed soprano Yolanda Rhodes, performing the works of African American composers: Leslie Adams, Margaret Bonds, Charles Brown, Valerie Capers, Betty Jackson King, Undine Smith Moore, Florence B. Price, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, Billie Holiday, Howard Swanson, and William Grant Still.

Price: suggested donations: $15 for adults/$5 for seniors and students
Phone: (650) 996-1801
Ticket proceeds to benefit the Music Department of the Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto. (H. Leslie Adams, Margaret Bonds, Henry T. Burleigh, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Florence B. Price and William Grant Still are profiled at AfriClassical.com)







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Thanks, Bill, for this information on this concert. Really appreciate. H. Leslie Adams

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