Passionale

Description

 Concert Program from performance at North Central College, Naperville, IL
January 19th, 2023
Texts and Notes

Categories

passionale

adjective
/pasːjo'nale/

(DOVUTO A PASSIONE)

  • of passion
  • delitto passionale, crime of passion
  • passionate , fiery , hot-blooded

Synonym

appassionato
impulsivo

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Passionale

Love Songs of Black American Poets and Composers

A program of songs that celebrates love relationships as expressed through the words and music of Black American Poets and Composers.  Each of the songs is set to the work of Black American poets, who inspired Black American classical composers to set those words to music.

  • “Nonviolence is an absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one’s whole being into the being of another.”
    - Martin Luther King, Jr.
     
  • "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
    - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poets
James Weldon Johnson
Paul Laurence Dunbar Langston Hughes Others . . .

Composers
J. Rosamund Johnson
H.T. Burleigh Florence Price Margaret Bonds H. Leslie Adams