On Sunday, February 2, 2025, 5:00PM, Brian Harlow will present Great Organ Music of the African Diaspora at Prospect Presbyterian Church. The program will be completely made up of works by composers of African descent and explores the variety of styles employed by classically trained composers of the African diaspora. This will include Romanticism, Neoclassicism, and the use of hymns, folk songs and spirituals. The program will include music by Florence Price, a trailblazer whose music has recently been rediscovered and championed by the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, André Thomas, author of a book on performing the Negro Spiritual, George Walker, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and Trevor Weston, head of the music department at Drew University in Madison, NJ. Brian Harlow-Jennings has performed as soloist and accompanist in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States. He is the Organist & Choirmaster of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Gladstone, NJ, the conductor of the Rutgers University-Newark Chorus, and a collaborating musician at several other houses of worship in northern New Jersey.
