Loading Purplepass...
What’s Going On: A Concert of Music by African American Composers
January 27th - January 28th, 2024 PST
Online sale ends: 01/28/24 at 10:00am PST
Eastside College Preparatory School Performing Arts Center
1041 Myrtle St
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
-= series =-
Buy Tickets
Buy Tickets
Description

Musicians of the African American Composer Initiative will present their annual concert to benefit Eastside College Preparatory School on Saturday January 27 and Sunday January 28, 2024 at 3pm in the school’s Performing Arts Center, 1041 Myrtle Street, East Palo Alto, CA.



Ticket proceeds benefit this outstanding all-scholarship school.

A musical response to our times, the program draws from music that inspires, uplifts, and energizes – spirituals, jazz, and classical music, vocal and instrumental. Bay Area musicians will be joined by jazz greats pianist Valerie Capers and bassist John H. Robinson. 

Composers include Margaret Bonds, John Wesley Work III, Jacqueline Hairston, Valerie Capers, John H. Robinson, Jeremiah Evans, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Valerie Coleman, Shawn Okpebholo, John Worley, and Marvin Gaye.

Performers are soprano Yolanda Rhodes, tenor Othello Jefferson, pianists/vocalists LaDoris Cordell and Deanne Tucker, pianists Valerie Capers, Josephine Gandolfi and Jansen Verplank, violinist Susan C. Brown, cellist Victoria Ehrlich; clarinetist Carol Somersille and her woodwind quintet, trumpeter John Worley, saxophonists Oscar Pangilinan and Tod Dickow, bassist John Robinson III, percussionist Jim Kassis, and dancer Johnny Clark.
Additional Information
Concerts not appropriate for young children.

Presented By
infoimg

Event starts at 3:00pm
Doors open at 2:30pm

General Admission: $20.00
Senior: $10.00
Student: $5.00

Age
All Ages

Eastside College Preparatory School Performing Arts Center<br> 1041 Myrtle St<br> East Palo Alto, 94303

143

info@aacinitiative.o

music

fundraisers

UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, January 27th

Buy Tickets
PAST EVENTS
Sunday, January 29th

Past Event
Saturday, January 28th

Past Event