"Ain't I a Woman," By Christy Hall

A chamber music and theatre work for actress and pianist celebrating four African-American women: ex-slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, folk artist Clementine Hunter, and civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer. The musical score is drawn from the heartfelt spirituals of the Deep South, the urban exuberance of the Jazz Age, and concert music by African-American composers including Diane Monroe.