Evening Recital: “Our People”

Freddie Ballentine tenor
Kunal Lahiry piano

Tickets: £18, £15 (unwaged/disabled)
FREE (U30/students)

Please note this is a standing event.
Doors and bar open from 7pm. Music starts at 8pm.

This recital is a passion product born out of the strife of the Black Lives Matter movement. While witnessing the outright hatred hurled at BIPOC and LGBT, Freddie and Kunal felt it was time to build something that could celebrate their uniqueness, while still honouring those who fought and came before. The programme is based on four pillars, representing moments in our lives and in history. Isolation, titled “Shut me out” explores our forced separation from the rest of society, but also the peace we’re able to find within that removal. Damnation, titled “Going Up in Smoke” recalls the atrocities surrounding the AIDS Crisis. Remembrance or “Requiem” pays homage to those who did not live to see the progress we’ve made. And finally Revolution, titled “So Loud, So Proud” explores our resilience as a people, and our joy and pride which can never be extinguished. Overall, we wish this recital to leave the audience with feelings and joy and hope for the future.

PROGRAMME

“Shut me out (Isolation)”

Traditional Spiritual
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Aaron Copland
Nature! The gentlest mother,

William Bolcom
George

Aaron Copland
Why do they shut me out of heaven?

Franz Schubert
Memnon

Margaret Bonds
Minstrel Man

Tradition Spiritual arr. Margaret Bonds
Lord, I just can’t keep from crying

“Going up in smoke (Damnation)” 

David Krakauer
The 80’s Miracle Diet

John Musto
Heartbeats

Ricky Ian Gordon
I never knew

Abel Meeropol aka Lewis Allan, arr. Pablo Campos
Strange Fruit

“Requiem (Remembrance)”

arr. Earl Wild
The Man I Love

John Musto
from Shadow of the Blues
Litany

Henry Purcell
Dido’s Lament

“So Loud, So Proud (Revolution)”

Ricky Ian Gordon
My People

Sergei Rachmaninov
Spring Waters

Nina Simone arr. Pablo Campos
Backlash Blues

Zachary Radler
Brown