“Black Velvet”
Music of Our African-American Composers
February 10 2026~ 1:00pm/ Rodef Shalom – Levy Hall
4905 5th Avenue, Oakland (Pittsburgh 15213)

Program

Incantation and Dance William Grant Still (1895-1978)
Rise Kostilnik, oboe / Janet Lillich Stivanson, piano

Peace Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981)
Stephanie Swoveland, violin / Janet Stivanson, piano

Flute Set for Solo Flute Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941)
I. Moderato con Anima
III. Lento e teneramente
Terri Denmon-Agin, flute

Threnody: A Song Cycle on Poetry of Donald Jeffrey Hayes Zenobia Powell Perry (1908-2004)
Threnody (1969)
Alien (1970)
Benediction (1872)
Poet (1969)
Pastourelle (1971)
Rosemary Pavlovsky, soprano / Janet Stivanson, piano

Two Spirituals Paul Doktor (1919-1989)
I’m Just A-goin’ Over Jordan
Were You There?
John McCarthy, viola/ Janet Stivanson, piano

Nonet in f minor, Opus 2 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
I. Allegro moderato
Gabrielle Baum, violin/ John McCarthy, viola/ Jeff Borrebach, cello/ Ira Moskowitz, bass
Sharlotte DeVere, oboe/ Janice Coppola, clarinet / Mark Dalrymple, bassoon
Barb Folb, French horn/ Vanessa Schmithorst, piano