June 3rd Program
THE KOBAYASHI/GRAY DUO
Laura Kobayashi, violin
Susan Keith Gray, piano
Saturday, June 3, 2023
7:30 p.m.
CD PREVIEW PROGRAM
Three Negro Spirituals for Violin and Piano……………...…....Florence Price (1887-1953)
O Holy Lord
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Lord I Want to be a Christian
Impressions (1977)……………………………………………..Gwyneth Rollin (b. 1943)
I. Children Playing
II. Snow
III. Pups
IV. Rose
V. City
“Fresh Breath of Hope” (2021)……………………………………...Nicky Sohn (b. 1992)
“A Vision” (pub. 1928)………………..………………..……….Ethel Barns (1847-1948)
BRIEF INTERMISSION
“In the blue of branches for Violin and Piano” (2022)………………………………………...…….….Angela Elizabeth Slater (b. 1989)
Romance norvegienne, Op. 15 (1911)…………………………………….…………….Borghild Holmsen (1865-1938)
Bitter-Sweet: Three Pieces for Violin and Piano (2019)…………………………………………………..……….Rhian Samuel (b. 1944)
1. Summer Rain
2. Gentle Persuasion
3. Jiggety Jig
Dansuri Românești (pe motive culese de Bartok) (1946)……………..Hilda Jerea (1919-80)[Roumanian Dances (in the manner of Bartόk)]
I. Cânťec de joc (Dance Song)
II. Doina (Elegiac Folksong)
III. Joc unguresc (Hungarian Dance)
IV. Cântecul moţului din vale (când a șezut la oile furate)
The song of the countryman from the valley (when the sheep were stolen)
V. Cânťec de joc
VI. Joc din fluer (Shepherd’s Pipe Dance)
VII. Din drâmboaie [Playing the drymba (Jew’s Harp)]