TOMORROW I MAY BE FAR AWAY
LARA DOWNES and RITA DOVE
Hailed for her “luscious, moody, and dreamy” playing by the New York Times, pianist Lara Downes is equally celebrated as a musical innovator and cultural investigator. In this collaboration with Pulitzer-winning poet Rita Dove, she presents a kaleidoscopic evening of music and poetry inspired by myriad stories of migration and transformation.
Directed by Mindy Cooper
Projection Design: Ian Wallace
PROGRAM
TOMORROW I MAY BE FAR AWAY
Edith North Johnson / Nathaniel Dett: Tomorrow I May Be Far Away
RECURRING DREAMS
J.S. Bach/arr Friedman: Sleepers Awake
H.T. Burleigh: My Lord, What A Mornin’
Angelica Negrón: Sueño Recurrente
Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
Billy Taylor: I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free
IMAGINE YOU WAKE UP WITH A SECOND CHANCE
Shawn Okpebholo: Amazing Grace / Rita Dove: Say Grace
Florence Price: Sketches in Sepia / Rita Dove: Sunday Greens
deVon Russell Gray: Even Your Tears / Rita Dove: Gospel
James Reese Europe: Goodnight Angeline / Rita Dove: The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe
Eubie Blake: Love Will Find A Way / Rita Dove: American Smooth
Rita Dove: Family Reunion
Quinn Mason: The Never-Ending River of Identity / Rita Dove: Exit
William Grant Still: Summerland / Rita Dove: Dawn Revisited
PROMISE
Duke Ellington: New World A-Comin’
Clarice Assad: A World Of Change
Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come
CODA
Margaret Bonds: Credo #2; I Believe / Rita Dove: Testimonial
AMERICAN SMOOTH (Live at Washington Performing Arts, November 2021)
Tomorrow I May Be Far Away premiered as a presentation of Washington Performing Arts in November 2021.