LINKS, INC. Annual Peabody Concert

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The 32nd Annual Peabody Concert: Celebrating student musicians of the African Diaspora

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In collaboration with The Columbia (MD) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, Peabody Institute students will represent their ancestries from across the African Diaspora, performing uniquely and traditionally composed pieces that align with this year's theme: In Living Color: Deconstructing Duality. This student-selected theme will hold the audience to reflect on the lived dualities Black people live with everyday. Students will also use their performances to explore radicalism, celebration, and community. 

Wendell Whalum (arr. Johnson): God is a God (Negro Spiritual)
William Grant Still and Langston Hughes: A Black Pierrot

Kaijeh Johnson, baritone
Taylor Wang, piano

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BMV 1008 

Rahel Lulseged, cello

Paul Creston: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, Op. 26 

Havalynn Robertson, classical saxophone
Hsiao-Ying Lin, piano

Maxwell Arceneaux: For My Angel 

Maxwell Arceneaux, horn

Yasir Jones: Backstage (solo)  

Yasir Jones, choreographer and dancer

Margaret Bonds and Langston Hughes: Three Dream Portraits (song cycle)
Jeff Scott: Elegy for Innocence

Mateen Milan, bassoon (featured guest artist)
Minji Nam, piano

Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II: Ol' Man River 

Kevin Paton-Cole, bass
Paul Byssainthe, Jr., piano

Robert Gilliam: Reflection 

Robert Gilliam, jazz saxophone and bass clarinet

Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 99 in F major

Emmanuel Losa, cello
Haichun Wang, piano

Abbilona and Tambor Yoruba: OYA (excerpt from '9:29')

Diedre Dawkins, choreographer
Ui-Seng Francois, dancer

About The Links, Incorporated

The Links, Incorporated, founded in 1946, is one of the oldest and largest global volunteer service organizations of women who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. The Links, Incorporated has a membership of over 12,000 professional women of color serving in 270 chapters in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the Bahamas. Through its philanthropic arm, The Links Foundation, Incorporated, the organization has contributed more than 25 million dollars to charitable causes since its founding.

The Columbia (MD) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated  chartered in June 1975, the Columbia (MD) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated has been a pillar of the Howard County community.  For over 47 years, the organization has  sponsored numerous events, and programs that span the arts, education, youth development, physical, and mental health, as well as national and international outreach.  For more information about the organization, visit the Columbia (MD Chapter's website  at columbiamdlinks.org.

This performance will be livestreamed.

This concert is closed to in-person audiences.