Songs from the Harlem Renaissance at Baruch PAC on February 10

“Songs from the Harlem Renaissance”

A Black History Month Concert

February 10 at 7 pm

Program

Water Boy (Avery Robinson, 1878-1965)

Dusty Road (Hall Johnson 1888-1970, text: Langston Hughes 1901-1967)

A Corn Song (Harry T. Burleigh 1866-1949, text: Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906)

John Henry (arr. Paul Campbell)

Status Symbol (David N. Baker 1931-2016, text: Mari Evans 1919-2017)

The Barrier (Charles Brown 1922-1999, text: Claude McKay 1890-1948)

Pagan Prayer (Jacqueline Hairston b. 1932, text: Countee Cullen 1903-1946)

I want to die while you love me (Undine Smith Moore 1904-1989, text: Georgia Douglas Johnson 1880-1966)

The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face (Harry Thacker Burleigh 1866-1949, text: James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938)

Her Eyes, Twin Pools of Mystic Light

Honor! Honor! (H. Johnson)

Were You There? (Moses Hogan 1957-2003)

City Called Heaven (H. Johnson)

You Can Tell the World (Margaret Bonds 1913-1972)

I Dream a World (Damien Sneed, text: Langston Hughes)

(Program subject to change)