We honor the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington - contemporized by their living descendant, Kenneth Morris, Jr. - through a collaborative commission with Emmy-winning Haitian composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain. ‘And Still We Cross’ is an artistic statement on migration and the enduring struggle for freedom, from the Underground Railroad to the Rio Grande.
The program also reflects the ancestral echoes of Felix Mendelssohn’s grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn, whose role in the Jewish Enlightenment helped shape the ideals that guided America’s founders and later generations of moral leaders.
Special guests:
Kenneth Morris, Jr., narrator
Penelope Campbell, soprano
Natalie Broussard, alto
Wayne Ashley, tenor
Keaton Brown, baritone
Program Partners: Frederick Douglass Family Initiative & Holocaust Museum Houston
Commission Underwriter: DatumSure
Major Support: Tom & Terri Kosten
The program also reflects the ancestral echoes of Felix Mendelssohn’s grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn, whose role in the Jewish Enlightenment helped shape the ideals that guided America’s founders and later generations of moral leaders.
Special guests:
Kenneth Morris, Jr., narrator
Penelope Campbell, soprano
Natalie Broussard, alto
Wayne Ashley, tenor
Keaton Brown, baritone
Program Partners: Frederick Douglass Family Initiative & Holocaust Museum Houston
Commission Underwriter: DatumSure
Major Support: Tom & Terri Kosten
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PROGRAM
Daniel Bernard Roumain: And Still We Cross (2025)
Words by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.
Commission for SATB Chorus, Narrator, and String Quartet
WORLD PREMIERE
Libby Larsen: Sorrow Song & Jubilee (2014)
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
Words by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.
Commission for SATB Chorus, Narrator, and String Quartet
WORLD PREMIERE
Libby Larsen: Sorrow Song & Jubilee (2014)
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
VENUE INFO
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