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  • Ain't Misbehavin' - SMU/NMU Summer 2024

    Ain't Misbehavin' - SMU/NMU Summer 2024

    CAST OF CHARACTERS
    NELL: Akosua Adwini-Poku
    ARMELIA: Jasmine Williams
    CHARLAINE: Sarah Elise Navy
    KEN: J'Von Brown
    ANDRE: Afika Gwam, Fri-Sun/ Anele Mutei, Thu-Sat
    BARTENDER: Thandeka Masoka

    FEATURE DANCERS
    Alahna Atwater, Oceana Petrus, Aluncedo Mtsutsa, Mmangaliso Mtshali

    ENSEMBLE MEMBERS
    Alahna Atwater, Aluncedo Mtsutsa, Anathi Mnukwa, Caitlyn Blouw, Isabel Dlamini, Jungmin Lee, Kaye-Dee Martin, Khanya Nesi, Landon Ryden,
    Lethabo Makuruetsa, Licebo Mose, Likho Mazaleni, Lindokuhle Gushu, Liyema Rose Ntanta, Loyiso Lloyds Gongota, Mmangaliso Mtshali, Mpumelelo Masuku, Nikho Voyi, Ntombozuko Sizani, Oceana Petrus, Raquel Fernandez, Samukelisiwe Nkutha, Sinentlahla Ndala, Thandeka Masoka, Tricia Tsang, Zama Mdlalose, Zizipho Mbaliso, Zukhanye Ham

    Professor Barbara Hill-Moore, H.D.F.A., Producer and Music Director
    Alvon Reed, Stage Director and Choreographer
    Robert Jason Smith, Vocal Coach and Associate Music Director
    Njabulo Mthimkhulu, Associate Producer and Chorus Master

    BAND MEMBERS
    Jason Smith, Piano and Director, Instrumental Ensemble
    Leighlin Burts, Flute
    Cirston Welman, Alto Saxophone
    Joseph Mukundi, Bass
    Vuyolwethu Camngca, Drums
    Hanlie Young, Keyboard

    TECHNICAL SUPPORT
    Danyke de Beer, Stage Manager and Lighting Technician
    Karim Faraj, Assistant Stage Manager
    Tricia Tsang, Assistant to the Director
    Kunako Goduka, Prop Manager
    Lwazi Mjitela, Assistant Prop Manager
    Raquel Fernandez, Make-Up and Wardrobe Mistress
    Landon Ryden, Wardrobe Master
    Carol Burts, Wardrobe Seamstress
    Enock Mkeys Mtileni, Live Streaming Engineer

    COSTUMES
    Rose Cowpar and the Savoy Theatre, Southern Methodist University's Division of Dance

    THIS PRODUCTION IS A MUSICAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY MUSIC DEPARTMENT (GQEBERHA, SOUTH AFRICA) AND SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY (DALLAS, TEXAS, USA) 2024 STUDY ABROAD PARTICIPANTS

  • Va! laisse couler mes larmes - Massenet

    Va! laisse couler mes larmes - Massenet

    Va! laisse couler mes larmes, Werther - Charlotte
    Jules Massenet

  • Lullaby - Menotti

    Lullaby - Menotti

    Lullaby, The Consul
    Gian Carlo Menotti

  • Four Poems of Nikita Gill - Melissa Dunphy

    Four Poems of Nikita Gill - Melissa Dunphy

    Dr. Michiko Otaki, piano
    Kayla Hart, soprano
    Matthew Milfort, countertenor

    I. Sorcery
    II. From The Ashes She Became
    III. You Have Become a Forest
    IV. Me Too

  • Price, Powell & Dunphy: Women Composing in Color

    Price, Powell & Dunphy: Women Composing in Color

    Lecture Recital Presented on April 19, 2022
    Spivey Hall, Morrow GA
    Dr. Michiko Otaki, Piano

    Program:
    Florence Price (1887-1953)
    Out of the South Blew a Wind (1946), Poetry by Fannie Carter Woods
    Song to the Dark Virgin (1941), Poetry by Langston Hughes
    Sympathy (Undated, est. 1930-1953), Poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar

    Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962)
    From Miss Wheatley’s Garden (2015):
    I Want to Die While You Love Me, Poetry by Georgia Douglas Johnson
    A Winter Twilight, Poetry by Angelina Grimké
    From Then, Here and Now (2020):
    Dying, Text based on Negro Spiritual

    Melissa Dunphy (b. 1980)
    From Four Poems of Nikita Gill (2018):
    I. Sorcery
    II. From the Ashes She Became
    III. You Have Become a Forest

    Price, Powell & Dunphy - Women Composing in Color - Program & Transcript

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    Sympathy - Price

    Grant Jones, Piano

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    Haï Luli - Pauline Viardot

    Grant Jones, Piano
    Spivey Hall, Morrow GA

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