Sugar Strings

Today on Introductions our guests were the members of the Sugar Strings, a trio of first cousins who have performed for the Ravinia Festival, for Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago, with the Milwaukee and Chicago Symphony Orchestras and much more.

They’ve prepared for us an eclectic program of music this hour by American black composers and eastern european composers plus some new arrangements of familiar jazz and popular tunes.

13 year old violist and violinist Mira Williams of the Kenwood Academy
13 year old homeschooled violinist Adé Williams
and 18 year old cellist Ayanna Williams who started last semester at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

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Program

Lift Every Voice and Sing by J. Rosamond Johnson (Donna’s arrangement of Carter’s version) (aka Black National Anthem)
Precious Lord by Thomas Dorsey (said to be Dr. Martin Luther King’s favorite song)

Trio Sonata in G Minor, Finale by Vivaldi
Roumanian Folk Dances, Nos. 4-6 by Bartok
Hora Mare by Mimi Rabson
Solfeggiettissimo by J. C. Bach is arranged by Philip R. Buttall and Donna Williams

Salt Peanuts by Dizzie Gillespie

Spain by Chick Corea

Spies Among Us (arr. by Donna Williams)

Human Nature, made famous by Michael Jackson, arranged by Donna Williams, composed by Steve Porcaro and John Bettis

Tags: bach, bartok, cello, corea, dorsey, gillespie, jackson, johnson, rabson

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