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In its first concert of 2025, Dessoff continues its mission of championing choral orchestral works of Black women composers, with a performance of Florence Price’s Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight. We also honor founder Margarete Dessoff by performing Schubert’s Psalm 23 and Brahms’ Vier Gesänge für Frauenchor, which she introduced to her choirs in New York in the 1920s as well as Hugo Herrmann's Chorvariationen über die Sonnengesänge des Franziskus von Assisi which Dessoff premiered in 1935.

Franz Schubert

Richard Strauss

Robert Schumann

Johannes Brahms

Hugo Hermann

Florence Price

PROGRAM
Psalm 23, op. 132, D. 706

Zueignung

Widmung

Vier Gesänge für Frauenchor op. 17

Chorvariationen
über die Sonnengesänge des Franziskus von Assisi, op. 85

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight


The Dessoff Choirs
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor & baritone
Steven Ryan, piano

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