Good evening and welcome to Tiger Lily music, a concert series at the University of Delaware School of Music that celebrates the works of women, African-American, Latino, and other under-represented composers. I'm Eileen risky, professor of flute at the University of Delaware School of Music. Tonight we will present the works of two living African American composers, Valerie Coleman and Adolphus hail storm, and also a composition by the late american composer Marion Bauer. We will begin and end our concert with two works by the celebrated flutist and composer Valerie Coleman. Ms. Coleman, who was a founding member of the Imani Winds, is currently on the faculty of the frost School of Music at the universe at the University of Miami. She recently had her music performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ud graduate student Genevieve Han opens our concert with the performance of MS. Coleman's danza de la Mariposa, a rhythmic, melodic tone poem for solo flute, inspired by the various species of butterflies and South America. Our University of Delaware clarinet professor Christopher Nichols will perform two movements titled gently and swiftly from three smiles for Tracy by Adolphus health stork, Dr. hail storm. Music has also been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra and by other prominent orchestras, including the Detroit Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. My oboe colleague, Meredith height s div as joins Christopher nickels in a work by Marion Bauer, who lived from 880 2950 5. Bower helped co-found the Society of American women composers in 925. And she had one of her works premiered by the New York Philharmonic in 1947 with Leopold to cough ski on the podium. Her duo for oboe, clarinet has four movements. Prelude, improvisations, pastoral, and dance. In our final work, sweet portraits of Langston, written in 2007 by Valerie Coleman. I will join my school of music colleagues, clarinetist Christopher nickels and pianists Christine Dubbo. Two movements from this work, Harlem's summer night and present Cabaret. The work is based on poems of Langston Hughes that explore his experiences in Paris and Harlem. Ms. Coleman suggest performing the work with the narrator reading selected Langston Hughes poems before each movement. Our narrator tonight is Devin Miller Dugan. I want to thank the staff of the school of music and especially John friend Burge, our sound engineer, for helping us to present this program tonight. I hope you enjoy this wonderful music. Hello. Hello. Hi. Hello. Yeah. Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Summer night. The sounds of the Harlem Night drop one-by-one into stillness. The last player piano is close. The last Victrola ceases with the jazz boy blues. The last crying baby sleeps and the night becomes still is a whispering heartbeat. I toss without rest in the darkness. Weary as the tired night, my soul empty as the silence empty with a vague the aching emptiness, desiring meeting someone or some thing. I toss without rest in the darkness until the new dome, one and pale descends like a white meats into the court. Hi, jazz band and a Parisian cabaret. Play that thing. Jazz band play it for the lords and ladies for the Dukes, and counts, for the horse and jugglers, for the American millionaires. And the school teachers out for us, free. Play jazz band. You know, that tune that laughs and cra is at the same time. You know, it. May, I may we mine got part AHA or not. You've got seven languages to speaking and then some, even if you do come from Georgia, sweetie.