THE AMERICAN PIANO
The American Piano concert showcases America's
diverse musical and ethnic melting pot through accessible classical piano music and
smatterings of jazz. The concert represents both male and female African American,
American Indian and European American composers with a mixture of familiar and new classical works for piano.
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3 Preludes, George Gershwin
-No.2 in C-Sharp Minor,
- No.3 in E-Flat Major,
China Gates, John Adams
Valley of Bones, Margaret Bonds (with audience participation!)_
Fingerbreaker, Jelly Roll Morton
The Design, Lola Perrin
From the Navajo Piano, Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No.1
Female Rain, Connor Chee
Down a Country Lane, Aaron Copland
Moonglow, Irving Mills /Art Tatum