Come hear what EXPANDING THE STAGE sounds like.

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Saturday, November 21, 20267:30 p.m.
Terry Concert Hall

Expanding Horizons

Opening Night of the Silver Jubilee Season

Five founding artists reunite to open our 25th anniversary season. Music of Haydn, Valerie Coleman, André Previn, and Shostakovich joins James Lee III's Lament.Sing.Arise, written for Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Terrence Wilson and premiered by RCP at the Library of Congress.

FEATURING

Alison Buchanan, soprano | Judy Dines, flute | Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin | Kenneth Law, cello | Terrence Wilson, piano

Alison Buchanan’s performance is sponsored by Jean Aikens

Kelly Hall-Tompkins’s performance is sponsored by Keith & Renata Ward Family Fund at The Miami Foundation

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Saturday, January 16, 20277:30 p.m.
Terry Concert Hall

Expanding Freedom

Coretta's Freedom Concert | Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend

Inspired by Coretta Scott King's historic Freedom Concerts, Expanding Freedom reclaims the concert stage as a place of remembrance, resistance, imagination, and human possibility. Margaret Bonds gives musical voice to the poetry of Langston Hughes, and Nkeiru Okoye's Songs of Harriet Tubman traces the transformation of one woman into an enduring symbol of liberation, with Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole carrying the larger story.

THE PROGRAM

• Jessie Montgomery b. 1981Duo for Violin and Cello
• Margaret Bonds 1913–1972Three Dream Portraitstexts by Langston Hughes
• Nkeiru Okoye b. 1972Songs of Harriet Tubman

Narrator: Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole. Additional repertoire to be announced.

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Saturday, February 20, 20277:30 p.m.
Terry Concert Hall

Expanding Legacy

The 2.22 Silver Jubilee Celebration and World Premiere

Just two days before the 25th anniversary of RCP's founding, Expanding Legacy celebrates a musical inheritance that reaches across generations, and an institution determined to keep adding to it. The evening closes with the world premiere of the Silver Jubilee Commission. Because legacy is not simply what we preserve. It is what we make possible next.

THE PROGRAM

• Courtney Bryan b. 1982Bloomingfor wind quintet
• Richard Strauss 1864–1949Till Eulenspiegel — einmal anders!arranged by Franz Hasenöhrl
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875–1912Nonet in F minor, Op. 2
• INTERMISSION
• James Lee III b. 1975Night Visions of Kippur
• World premiereThe Silver Jubilee Commissioncomposer to be announced

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Saturday, April 10, 20277:30 p.m.
Terry Concert Hall

Expanding Bridges

The Spring Concert

Music has the rare power to carry memory, identity, and lived experience across boundaries where words often fail. Expanding Bridges brings African American, Jewish, Indigenous, and immigrant traditions into conversation, not by erasing their differences, but by listening more deeply to what each carries. Different histories. Different voices. One stage large enough to hear them together.

THE PROGRAM

• Carlos Simon b. 1986Warmth from Other Suns
• Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate b. 1968Pisachi (Reveal): Six Epitomes
• Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34
• INTERMISSION
• Osvaldo Golijov b. 1960A work for soprano and ensembleto be announced
• Dmitri Shostakovich 1906–1975String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

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Saturday, June 19, 20277:30 p.m.
Terry Concert Hall

Expanding the American Score

The Juneteenth Finale

The season closes with an expanded encore of Free At Last? The Evolution of the American Spiritual. With Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole as narrator, the work traces the spiritual from sacred memory and survival through the Black church, the concert tradition, and the Freedom Movement, revealing a musical inheritance that has shaped not only Black history but the sound and conscience of America.

After 25 years of EXPANDING THE STAGE, the season ends with RCP's boldest affirmation: the story of American music cannot be fully told without the voices of the African diaspora.

Narrator: Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole. Final repertoire, guest artists, and expanded instrumentation to be announced.