Gateways Music Featuring orchestra
concerts, choral concert with orchestra,
and chamber music concerts in the home
series (including homeless shelters and
institutions of incarceration). The
1995
festival brought musicians from all
around the United States which included
chamber ensemble concerts, a mass piano
recital and a festival orchestra
concert.
Festival Highlights:
Festival Orchestra Concert
"Piano Monster Concert"
Chamber Music Concert
Solo Recitals
Chamber Music Highlights:
Brass Quintet pieces by William
Brade and William Presser
Leonard Bowie and Herbert Smith
(trumpets) - Crystal Swepson (horn)
- Kenneth Thomkins (trombone) James
Jenkins (tuba)
Telemann Concerto in D for two oboes
and trumpet
Rodney Mack, trumpet - Oscar Petty
and James Ferraiuolo (oboes)
Somehow We Can - Alvin Singleton
Performed by the Anderson Quartet
Solo Music Highlights:
Sonata in G minor - Sergei
Rachmaninoff
Owen Young, cello - Joy Cline, piano
Sonata in Eb for clarinet and piano
- J. Brahms
Marcus Eley, clarinet - Awadagin
Pratt, piano
Piano Recitals - works by Bach, Dett,
Tcherepnin, Chopin and Scott Joplin
performed by Rev. Charles Walker and
Roy Eaton
Concerto No. 3 for piano and
orchestra - Beethoven
Awadagin Pratt, piano and conductor
Orchestra Highlights:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - J.S.
Bach
Overture to Oberon - Weber
A Lincoln Portrait - Aaron Copland
William Warfield, narrator - Michael
Morgan, conductor