ACC Music Presents
Find Your Voice: Donnie Ray Albert
Featuring: Shane Anderson, piano
Tuesday, February 24th, 7:00 pm
Highland Recital Hall
Building 2000
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I.
Beginnings
Die Allmacht
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Omnipotence
Great is Jehovah the Lord! for heaven and earth proclaim
His power! You can hear it in the roaring storm, in the forest stream’s
Loud stirring call, in the rustling of the woods as they turn green;
You can see it in the waving gold of the corn, in the lovely flowers’
Glowing luster, in the look of the sky sown with stars!
It sounds out fearfully in the rumbling of thunder, and flames in lightning’s
Rapidly descending flight; but your pounding heart announces
Jehovah’s power with more feeling, the power of eternal God,
You look up to him in prayer, and hope for grace and mercy!
Draw Near All Ye People, from Elijah
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Pilgrim's Song
P.I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all that I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Wenn ich mit Menchen
Johannes Brahms (1883-1897)
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understands fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
II.
Social Justice
Gotta Stand
Dr. Valerian Smith (1936-1992)
Op. 41 In Memoriam to George Jackson
Robert Owens (1925-2017)
The Lynching Text: Claude McKay (1890-1948)
If We Must Die
To the White Fields
He Came to Alabama
Lena J. Lin (1928-2023)
The Soul of America
Jerrell R. Grey (b. 1989)
Text: John R. Lewis (1940-2020)
III.
Spirituals
God, I Need Thee
John W. Work (1871-1925)
Text: Howard Thurman (1899-1981)
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
arr. Uzee Brown, Jr. (b. 1950)
Tryin' to Get Home
arr. Roland M. Carter (b. 1942)
City Called Heaven
arr. Hall Johnson (1888-1970)
I want to Die Easy
arr. Hale Smith (1925-2009)
Done Made My Vow
arr. Uzee Brown, Jr. (b. 1950)
Donnie Ray Albert, soloist
Donnie Ray Albert, soloist
Louisiana native and 1972 Louisiana State University graduate, Donnie Ray Albert began his operatic career after completing his Masters of vocal Performance degree from Southern Methodist University in 1975.
For 13 years Mr. Albert performed as a Bass-Baritone before switching to Baritone in 1988. Mr. Albert's 40+ year career has taken him to some of the world's greatest opera houses and concert halls. Highlights include TOSCA (Scarpia) in Portland, New York City Opera, Atlanta & Giessen; AIDA (Amonasro) in Washington, DC, Köln, Boston, Montreal, and Stade de France; NABACCO in Vancouver, Florentine Opera, La Scala; RIGOLETTO in Miami, New York City Opera, Mannheim, & Vancouver; OTELLO (Jago) in Sacramento, Kentucky Opera, Hamburg; UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Renato) in Chicago Lyric and Los Angeles; THE FLYING DUTCHMAN in Austin, Köln, Arizona; MACBETH in Columbus, Ohio & Köln; LA TRAVIATA (Germont) Metropolitan Opera in the Parks; DIE WALKÜRE (Wotan) in Austin and Tokyo, Japan; SIEGFRIED (Wanderer) in Tokyo, Japan; TALES OF HOFFMANN (Villains) Houston, Köln, Prague National Theater, and Covent Garden.Orchestral engagements include Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Jerusalem, London, Cleveland and New York. Mr. Albert has collaborated with notables conductors, John DeMain, James Conlon, Paavo Järvi, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Alexander Joel, John Fiore and Karel Mark Chichon.
Mr. Albert's 2016-2017 performances included soloist in the Opera John Brown (concert at Carnegie Hall), the 4 Villians in the TALES OF HOFFMANN (Dresden, Germany); Germont in LA TRAVIATA (Dresden, Germany). In 2018, he appeared as the Doctor in VANESSA, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, England.
Mr. Albert can be heard on RCA’s PORGY AND BESS (Grammy 1977 – Best Opera Recording and the Grand Prix du Disc) conducted by John DeMain; THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY( 2 Grammys: 2008 Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Album) conducted by James Conlon; EMI’s EINE FLORENTINISCHE TRAGÖDIE, also conducted by James Conlon. Mr. Albert’s discography can be found on CD Baby, Spotify and Amazon.com.
Mr. Albert is currently Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Voice at the University of Texas Austin, Butler School of Music.
Shane Anderson, piano
Shane Anderson, piano
As an advocate of innovative methods of education, Shane Anderson, DMA, was one of the first music educators to create and teach Class Piano fully online. Through a Louisiana Board of Regents Grant and private donations totaling nearly $100,000, in 2016 he designed and installed a 24 station Roland piano lab for Nicholls State University. He has also served as pianist for many years with the Victoria Symphony and Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestras.
His interest in new music has led him to perform and present classes on contemporary piano music in Jakarta, Bandung and Bali, Indonesia, on behalf of the Yamaha Corporation. Shane has been featured as a collaborative artist in hundreds of performances throughout Texas and Louisiana. He most recently served as head of the Department of Music at Nicholls State University and Associate professor of music at Texas A&M University in both Corpus Christi and Kingsville. His degrees are from the Eastman School of Music as a student of Nelita True and The University of Texas at Austin with Nancy Garrett. Shane teaches private and class piano for the Music Department at ACC.
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