UOL BHM Concert


Brought to you by the University of Liverpool
Wednesday 14, 21, 28 October 2020, 1pm
Wednesday 25 November 2020, 1 pm
Wednesday 9 December 2020, 1pm
Online & Free to Attend


The University of Liverpool presents music that crosses centuries, nationalities, genres, gender and race performed by musicians from across Merseyside. Throughout the autumn they are delighted to highlight works by Black composers including:


14 October: UoL Instrumental Teachers Lockdown Band


Jump aboard Strayhorn’s Take the A Train and cool down with Water from An Ancient Well by Abdullah Ibrahim (fka Dollar Brand) in this set of jazz classics.
Abdullah Ibrahim – Water from An Ancient Well
Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man
Billy Strayhorn – Take the A Train
Theolonius Monk – Blue Monk
Blue Mitchell – Fungii Mama


21 October: Members of the 18th Sinfonia


Sancho was an 18th century composer and social reformer and the first person of African descent to vote in a British general election. These short, characterful dances are performed on Baroque violin, cello and harpsichord.
Igantius Sancho – Minuets etc


28 October: Tom Kimmance (piano)


Lucien Lambert (snr) came from a family dynasty of fine musicians. Born as a free person of colour in New Orleans in the late 19th century he emigrated to France, then Brazil. This Grand Valse is a sparkling, Romantic work.
Lucien Lambert (snr) – Bresiliana: Grand Valse Brilliante


25 November: Mandy Burvill (clarinet)


Hailstork is an internationally renowned American composer and Professor of Music at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Smiles for Tracey humorously explores the range of the clarinet.
Adolphus Hailstork – Smile for Tracey (no.3)


9 December: Solem Quartet


Price was the first noted African American female composer to gain national status. Recently much of her music was rediscovered in an abandoned house what was once her home. A Summer Moon is an arrangement of a piano piece Price composed for her pupil the singer, jazz pianist, and social activist Memry Midgett.
Florence Price – A Summer Moon


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