Événement

AMADI AZIKIWE, Violist/Violinist / MIKAEL DARMANIE, Pianist

Honoring the Founder of Four Seasons Arts: Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams.

This annual concert honors the Founder of Four Seasons Arts programming, W. Hazaiah Williams..
Please order your tickets, but the tickets are FREE as a gift to the community.

PROGRAM

"Beethoven and Blues"
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in E flat, Op. 12, No. 3
David Baker: Deliver My Soul
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blue/s Forms
Beethoven: Sonata in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer"

Dr. Williams was one of the first African-American presenters of a major classical music concert series in the United States and it is to him that we offer this special tribute. His love of classical music began as a child when he attended concerts by legendary artists such as tenor Roland Hayes and contralto Marian Anderson, In 1958, at a time when the classical music world, and much of the rest of society, was racially segregated, he began presenting artists of all races and organizing racially diverse audiences. Over 40-plus years in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, he introduced to the world some of the finest musicians of our time.