Turning our attention to the often-overlooked compositions of Black composers : Summer Solstice Production

Florence Price (1887–1953)
The Deserted Garden
Fantasie No. 1 in G Minor

Gabrielle Després, violin
Patricia Tao, piano

Lena McLin (1928–2023)
Songs of Love
Silence
The Unlucky Apple
If I Could Give You All I Have

Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962)
Miss Wheatley’s Garden
I Want to Die While You Love Me
A Winter Twilight
Songs of the People

Catherine Daniel, mezzo-soprano
Patricia Tao, piano

R. Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943)
Incantation, from Enchantment
Beyond the Dream, from Enchantment

David Fung, piano

Intermission

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, op. 60

• Allegro non troppo
• Scherzo: Allegro
• Andante
• Finale: Allegro comodo

Kerson Leong, violin
Marina Thibeault, viola
Peter Eom, cello
David Fung, piano