Berklee Faculty Assocnatlon
Concert Series

“LIFE SYMPHONY"

conducted by
RUMAS BARRETT

SENEGALESE FOLK SONG (DEMBA VIEUX SANE, solo vocalist)
TALKING DRUM...."DURBAR" (of Chiefs) _
(original composition w/dissertation by RUMAS BARRETT
spoken by Chief MARTIN OWUSU of Ghana; translated by
MICHAEIL NURSE, London, England)

2) THREE POEMS: Children Of Blackness; Africa #1
(written & read by THOMAS GRIMES, Syracuse, New York;
accompanied by the CALLERS DRUM ASSEMBLY w/the "Melano"

1)

; Africans.

rhythm)
3) The Soulful Sounds Of The "PERFECT BLEND" (vocals)
"Love Come Down' Sl e Ll B D eomnRditone on
"Just Be Yourself" . The Cameos
(arrangements by DAVID BUNN BaZttmore, Mary land)
4) THE METRO STEEL BAND OF BOSTON
G s e e oShabes ilonder
. Blue Boy

"Another Star".
"Town Man' (calypso) i
(arrangements by GLENN GABRIEL Port Of Spain, Trinidad)
9 "TRANSIENT" . comp. & arr. Rumas Barrett
w/poetry _X_Thomas Grlmes
1. "The Queen," read by actress/dancer Francis Worth-



ington Mills
2. "The Phoenix," read by Thomas Grimes
INTERMISSION
k) EDOTPRINTS. Wayne Shorter/arr. Rumas Barrett
Z2) THE METRO STEEL BAND OF BOSTON
"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life". . . . . .Stevie Wonder
arr. Glenn Gabriel