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HVP: Underground Figures

Dedicated to Virginia Banks with thanks for her deep love and support of the HVP

Guest Conductor Dr. Anne Lundy
A program celebrating Harriet Tubman and featuring all female composers, soloists, visual artists and conductor, in the HVP premieres of works by Julia Wolfe, Nkeiru Okoye, and Florence Price.

Julia Wolfe – Anthracite Fields: IV. Flowers with Cappella Festiva and projections of paintings and photographs by Georgia O’Keefe, Imogen Cunningham, Margaret Bourke-White and others
Nkeiru Okoye – Songs of Harriet Tubman w/ Soprano Kishna Fowler
– My Name is Araminta
– My Name is Harriet, Now
– I am Harriet Tubman, Free Woman
– I am Moses, The Liberator
Florence Price – Symphony No.1 in E Minor

Guest Conductor Dr. Anne Lundy
Soloist Kishna Fowler
Florence Beatrice Price

Program Notes – Songs of Harriet Tubman

For more info on the composers, conductor and soloist click here to view the most recent HVP Behind the Music

Made possible through the generous support of Rhinebeck Bank, The Azrieli Foundation, Dr. Edwin Ulrich Charitable Trust, Norman & Jeannie Greene Fund of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District, Vassar Brothers Institute, Irving and Gloria Schlossberg Family Fund of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley, Bruderhof and WMHT FM 89.1 Schenectady and WRHV. Also made possible with generous support from the Dyson Foundation, the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust and the James J. McCann Charitable Trust.