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 Deon Nielsen Price, Berkeley Price, Janis-Rozena Peri and Darryl Taylor at Mu Phi Epsilon Centennial Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 8, 2003. Photograph by Beverly Simmons. |
95th Birthday Concert Tour
Jaygayle Music, is pleased to announce an Ohio Concert Tour to Celebrate Zenobia Powell Perry's 95th Birthday, October 1 through 5, 2003 with performances in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, and Wilberforce. The tour, featuring soprano JANIS-ROZENA PERI, tenor DARRYL TAYLOR, clarinetist BERKELEY PRICE, pianists DEON NIELSEN PRICE and JOHN CROTTY, and lecturer JEANNIE POOL, is produced by Jeannie Pool and Beverly Simmons.
The tour is presented in cooperation with the National Afro-American Museum of Wilberforce, Ohio and is sponsored in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council. For details of the tour plans, see the schedule below. For more information, call 818-606-5743. Please check this web site the week of the tour for information on local press coverage including radio broadcasts.
Zenobia Powell Perry 95th Birthday Celebration Tour
Sponsored in part by the Ohio Arts Council, with the assistance of the
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio.
Also supported by Mu Phi Epsilon Music Fraternity Foundation,
Culver Crest Publications, and Jaygayle Music.
Featuring:
Darryl Taylor, tenor (University of Iowa)
Janis-Rozena Peri, soprano (West Virginia University)
Berkeley Price, clarinet (Windward School, California)
Deon Nielsen Price, piano (El Camino College, ret.)
John Crotty, piano (West Virginia University)
Jeannie Pool, lecturer (Fullerton College)
Jeannie Pool and Beverly Simmons (Case Western Reserve University), producers
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Music & Performing Arts at Trinity, Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland
11:30 am Lecture by Jeannie Pool, on the music of Zenobia Perry Powell
12:10 pm Brownbag Concert, opening 25th anniversary season of M&PA
Thursday, October 2, 2003
Radio: 12:30 pm on WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio. ÝJanis-Rozena Peri will be interviewed live
Evening concert in Columbus, Ohio. Riley Recital Hall, Otterbein College, 8 pm
Friday, October 3, 2003 (Zenobia Powell Perry's 95th Birthday)
University of Dayton Department of Music, Sears Recital Hall
1:00 pm Recital
8:00 pm Kelly Hall, Main Building, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Sponsored by the Office of Mulitcultural Affairs. Free concert, followed by a reception.
Saturday, October 4, 2003
11 am Recital at Paul Laurence Dunbar House
219 Paul Laurence Dunbar St., 2 blocks north of 3rd Street and 4 blocks east of U.S. Route 35, in Dayton.
Free admission. Featuring Zenobia Perry's Song Cycle Based on Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
3 pm Concert at Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, 103 William Howard Taft Blvd., Cincinnati
For more information call 513-281-5945.
Music by Zenobia Perry, Deon Nielsen Price, H. Leslie Adams, Jeannie Pool, Florence Price
and Margaret Bonds.
Free will offering to benefit the Mallory Center for Community
Development, followed by a reception honoring Zenobia Perry and Former Senate Majority Leader
William Mallory, Sr. (ret.), on the occasion of his 72nd birthday
Sunday, October 5, 2003
Christ Episcopal Church, Xenia
10:30 am Service, featuring spirituals arranged by Zenobia Perry, sung
by Darryl Taylor and Janis-Rozena Peri, soprano, accompanied by Deon Nielsen Price and John Crotty
Central State University, Paul Robeson Cultural & Performing Center, Wilberforce
3:00 pm Concert, followed by reception at the National Afro-American
Museum and Cultural Center
Biographies of Performers (in alphabetical order)
John Crotty (D.M.A. Eastman School of Music) has been on the West Virginia University faculty since 1986; he is currently an Associate Professor of Music. His previous faculty appointments were at Florida A& M University in Tallahassee and at Boston Universty. In addition, he was a member of the administrative staff of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massacusetts.
Janis-Rozena Peri (M.M. Miami University) an ardent supporter, promoter and daughter of Zenobia Perry, is a member of the voice faculty at West Virginia University and has often performed her mother's songs, many of them written for her. A specialist in 20th century vocal music and women composers, she has also premiered works of Jeraldine Herbison, Undine Smith Moore, Adolphus Hailstork, Eero Ricmond, John Beall, Gil Trythall and Gerald Lefkoff. She is featured on the first recording devoted to the music of Perry, Music of Zenobia Powell Perry, on the Jaygayle Music/Cambria label.
Jeannie Gayle Pool (Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University) is author of the dissertation, The Life and Music of Zenobia Powell Perry: An American Composer, and is an award winning composer, music historian, lecturer on film music and American music, producer of recordings and founder of the International Congress on Women in Music. She is currently on the music faculty of Fullerton College, in Fullerton, California. Her web site is www.jeanniepool.org.
Berkeley Price (D.M.A. Eastman School of Music) is widely known in North America, Europe, and Asia for his live and recorded solo and chamber performances on many instruments of the clarinet family. For the past ten years he has toured internationally with the mother/son PRICE DUO. Dr. Price recently returned to California after serving as Assistant Professor at West Virginia College and currently teaches at the Windward School.
Deon Nielsen Price (D.M.A. University of Southern California)) is a prize-winning pianist, commissioned composer, recording artist and author. She has presented several workshops at Mu Phi Epsilon conventions (and elsewhere) using her books, Accompanying Skills for Pianists and SightPlay with Skillful Eyes (Culver Crest). The Price Duo can be heard on CD recordings: American Themes, Clariphonia, and SunRays II: City Views (Cambria). Please see a catalog of her music, books and recordings: www.culvercrest.com
Darryl Taylor (D.M.A. University of Michigan) is a vocal artist whose performances in opera, oratorio, recital and on recordings have been highly acclaimed. As founder of the African American Art Song Alliance, he has debuted numerous works, including Deon Nielsen Price's To The Children of War. Drs. Price and Taylor have collaborated on several international tours. Mr. Taylor's recordings, Love Rejoices: Songs of H. Leslie Adams (Albany) and Dreamer: A Portrait of Langston Hughes (Naxos) are receiving lavish praise.
Jaygayle Music, is pleased to announce an Ohio Concert Tour to Celebrate Zenobia Powell Perry's 95th Birthday, October 1 through 5, 2003 with performances in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, and Wilberforce. The tour, featuring soprano JANIS-ROZENA PERI, tenor DARRYL TAYLOR, clarinetist BERKELEY PRICE, pianists DEON NIELSEN PRICE and JOHN CROTTY, and lecturer JEANNIE POOL, is produced by Jeannie Pool and Beverly Simmons.
The tour is presented in cooperation with the National Afro-American Museum of Wilberforce, Ohio and is sponsored in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council. For details of the tour plans, see the schedule below. For more information, call 818-606-5743. Please check this web site the week of the tour for information on local press coverage including radio broadcasts.
Sponsored in part by the Ohio Arts Council, with the assistance of the
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio.
Also supported by Mu Phi Epsilon Music Fraternity Foundation,
Culver Crest Publications, and Jaygayle Music.
Featuring:
Darryl Taylor, tenor (University of Iowa)
Janis-Rozena Peri, soprano (West Virginia University)
Berkeley Price, clarinet (Windward School, California)
Deon Nielsen Price, piano (El Camino College, ret.)
John Crotty, piano (West Virginia University)
Jeannie Pool, lecturer (Fullerton College)
Jeannie Pool and Beverly Simmons (Case Western Reserve University), producers
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Music & Performing Arts at Trinity, Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland
11:30 am Lecture by Jeannie Pool, on the music of Zenobia Perry Powell
12:10 pm Brownbag Concert, opening 25th anniversary season of M&PA
Thursday, October 2, 2003
Radio: 12:30 pm on WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio. ÝJanis-Rozena Peri will be interviewed live
Evening concert in Columbus, Ohio. Riley Recital Hall, Otterbein College, 8 pm
Friday, October 3, 2003 (Zenobia Powell Perry's 95th Birthday)
University of Dayton Department of Music, Sears Recital Hall
1:00 pm Recital
8:00 pm Kelly Hall, Main Building, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Sponsored by the Office of Mulitcultural Affairs. Free concert, followed by a reception.
Saturday, October 4, 2003
11 am Recital at Paul Laurence Dunbar House
219 Paul Laurence Dunbar St., 2 blocks north of 3rd Street and 4 blocks east of U.S. Route 35, in Dayton.
Free admission. Featuring Zenobia Perry's Song Cycle Based on Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
3 pm Concert at Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, 103 William Howard Taft Blvd., Cincinnati
For more information call 513-281-5945.
Music by Zenobia Perry, Deon Nielsen Price, H. Leslie Adams, Jeannie Pool, Florence Price
and Margaret Bonds.
Free will offering to benefit the Mallory Center for Community
Development, followed by a reception honoring Zenobia Perry and Former Senate Majority Leader
William Mallory, Sr. (ret.), on the occasion of his 72nd birthday
Sunday, October 5, 2003
Christ Episcopal Church, Xenia
10:30 am Service, featuring spirituals arranged by Zenobia Perry, sung
by Darryl Taylor and Janis-Rozena Peri, soprano, accompanied by Deon Nielsen Price and John Crotty
Central State University, Paul Robeson Cultural & Performing Center, Wilberforce
3:00 pm Concert, followed by reception at the National Afro-American
Museum and Cultural Center
John Crotty (D.M.A. Eastman School of Music) has been on the West Virginia University faculty since 1986; he is currently an Associate Professor of Music. His previous faculty appointments were at Florida A& M University in Tallahassee and at Boston Universty. In addition, he was a member of the administrative staff of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massacusetts.
Janis-Rozena Peri (M.M. Miami University) an ardent supporter, promoter and daughter of Zenobia Perry, is a member of the voice faculty at West Virginia University and has often performed her mother's songs, many of them written for her. A specialist in 20th century vocal music and women composers, she has also premiered works of Jeraldine Herbison, Undine Smith Moore, Adolphus Hailstork, Eero Ricmond, John Beall, Gil Trythall and Gerald Lefkoff. She is featured on the first recording devoted to the music of Perry, Music of Zenobia Powell Perry, on the Jaygayle Music/Cambria label.
Jeannie Gayle Pool (Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University) is author of the dissertation, The Life and Music of Zenobia Powell Perry: An American Composer, and is an award winning composer, music historian, lecturer on film music and American music, producer of recordings and founder of the International Congress on Women in Music. She is currently on the music faculty of Fullerton College, in Fullerton, California. Her web site is www.jeanniepool.org.
Berkeley Price (D.M.A. Eastman School of Music) is widely known in North America, Europe, and Asia for his live and recorded solo and chamber performances on many instruments of the clarinet family. For the past ten years he has toured internationally with the mother/son PRICE DUO. Dr. Price recently returned to California after serving as Assistant Professor at West Virginia College and currently teaches at the Windward School.
Deon Nielsen Price (D.M.A. University of Southern California)) is a prize-winning pianist, commissioned composer, recording artist and author. She has presented several workshops at Mu Phi Epsilon conventions (and elsewhere) using her books, Accompanying Skills for Pianists and SightPlay with Skillful Eyes (Culver Crest). The Price Duo can be heard on CD recordings: American Themes, Clariphonia, and SunRays II: City Views (Cambria). Please see a catalog of her music, books and recordings: www.culvercrest.com
Darryl Taylor (D.M.A. University of Michigan) is a vocal artist whose performances in opera, oratorio, recital and on recordings have been highly acclaimed. As founder of the African American Art Song Alliance, he has debuted numerous works, including Deon Nielsen Price's To The Children of War. Drs. Price and Taylor have collaborated on several international tours. Mr. Taylor's recordings, Love Rejoices: Songs of H. Leslie Adams (Albany) and Dreamer: A Portrait of Langston Hughes (Naxos) are receiving lavish praise.
Dr. Jeannie Pool spoke on Zenobia Perry's music at the Second Hildegard Festival of Women in the Arts (March 20-22, 2003) at California State University Stanislaus School of Fine and Performing Arts, Turlock, California. She spoke on Friday afternoon, March 21, 2003. For information, contact the coordinator, Dr. Deborah Kavasch, at dkavasch@toto.csustan.edu or call 209-667-3429.
Zenobia Perry's music was featured at the Southern California Chapter of the International Alliance for Women in Music, April 26-27, 2003 at the Church of the Lighted Window, La Canada, California. For more details, please contact Jeannie Pool at jeanniegpool@cs.com.
A special session in honor of Zenobia Perry's 95th birthday took place at the 2003 Centennial Convention of Mu Phi Epsilon International held in Cincinnati at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, August 6-11. The session, which took place on August 8 from 7 to 8:30 pm, included a lecture by Dr. Pool and a performance of Perry's music featuring Dr. Deon Nielsen Price, pianist; Dr. Berkeley Price, clarinetist; Dr. Darryl Taylor, tenor; Janis-Rozena Peri, soprano. For more details, visit the Mu Phi Epsilon Web site at http://home.muphiepsilon.org/
It was Zenobia Perry Day in Xenia, Ohio on Thursday, July 11, 2002, so declared by the City of Xenia and the Golden Age Senior Center, which held an afternoon tea in her honor. Xenia Mayor John T. Saraga, Golden Age Senior Center staff and Perry's colleagues and friend organized the day to recognize and celebrate Perry's lifetime accomplishments and contributions to the Dayton area. An article by Beth Michaels for the Dayton Daily News was published Thursday, July 11, 2002 and is available on line through the newspaper's web site [daytondailynews.com, search under "Archives."]
Many thanks to the PatsyLu Fund which gave in 2002 a grant of $2,000 to the North Wind Quintet in Los Angeles, California to fund a recording in the spring of 2003 of Perry's woodwind music and the professional preparation of the scores and parts.
Zenobia Perry, while recovering from a car accident that took place in August 2002, has been revising her opera Tawawa House. Efforts are being made to secure a revival performance in celebration of her 95th birthday (October 2003).
