First United Methodist Church
2727 Jackson St., Alexandria
In collaboration with the Tom Peyton Arts Festival, The Fourth Wall, is an evening of art song by African-American composers, featuring the remarkable voices of soprano
Tiffany Bostic-Brown and baritone
Terrance Brown accompanied by members of the Rapides Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Joshua Zona. The sensitive, beautifully scored selections by William Grant Still, Robert Owens and H. Leslie Adams include settings of poems by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes narrated by
Gabrielle Fuqua.
Robert Owens - 4 motivations
William Grant Still - From the Hearts of Women
H. Leslie Adams - Three Songs on Texts of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Owens - Heart on the Wall
This concert is free and open to the public.