Peggy Lee Brown, Ray Brown,
and Sylvia Brown-Roberts

Broadway, Jazz,
and Spirituals

Preservation New Jersey is pleased to welcome Peggy Lee Brown back to the beautiful stained glass and wonderful acoustic space of the 1867 Sanctuary with vocalists Ray Brown and Sylvia Brown-Roberts and pianist Jaclyn Duncan for a Saturday matinee concert!

The program includes:

In the Still of the Night (Cole Porter)
Rosalie

All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II)
Very Warm for May

I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter)
Born to Dance

Misty (Johnny Burke & Erroll Garner)

Summertime (George Gershwin & Dubose Heyward)
Porgy & Bess

INTERMISSION

Give Me Jesus (arranged by Moses Hogan)

Since Jesus Came Into My Heart (Rufus H. McDaniel)
Peggy Brown, Ray Brown, & Sylvia Brown-Roberts

Yes, God is Real (Kenneth Morris)
Peggy Brown, Ray Brown, & Sylvia Brown-Roberts

When Jesus Comes Again (James W. Gaines)
Peggy Brown, Ray Brown, & Sylvia Brown-Roberts

Ride On, King Jesus (Hall Johnson)

Peggy Lee Brown is a vocalist with a repertoire that includes Broadway, opera, jazz, and spirituals. She has performed in the United States and Europe.

New York Concert Review wrote this review after Ms. Brown’s performance at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall: Gospel tunes, the clear domain of Ms. Brown ended the recital… The final one, All Night, All Day was a duet arrangement by the two singers. Ms. Brown and Molinari-Hagner ‘hit it out of the park.’ They garnered an instant…standing ovation from their audience and fans.

Referring to her rendition of Gershwin’s Summertime from Porgy and Bess, New York Concert Review wrote, Even before the song’s final notes, the audience began to applaud vigorously once more and rose to give the artists another ovation.

The highlight of these works was Rossini’s Una voce poco fà from The Barber of Seville. Ms. Brown navigated this challenging terrain admirably, executing impressive leaps, often to the upper end of her range. These high notes, which one could easily mar with inaccurate pitch or harsh timbral qualities, bloomed beautifully from Ms. Brown’s mouth. Moreover, she not only sang impressively, but also exhibited anendearing coquettish persona as she did so. By the end of this piece, Ms. Brown and Ms. Cheadle had completely won over the audience.

Ms. Brown is a graduate of The College of New Jersey (B.S.) and Thomas Edison State College (M.A.). Ms. Brown’s website is www.peggyleebrown.org.

Ray Brown, vocalist and fashion designer of Ray Vincente has been designing since 1983 as a freelance designer for public and private individuals. He has a degree in Fashion Merchandising from ICS of PA, and has completed course work in fashion design, illustration, and production at FIT, NYC NY. In February of 2009 he launched his own collection for menswear, Ray Vincente Eclectic! Label. Ray’s website is www.rayvincente.com. He is featured on the Good News CD with Peggy Lee Brown and Sylvia Brown-Roberts.

Sylvia Brown-Roberts is a retired public school teacher, vocalist and author of the Church Doors novel series, Behind Church Doors, Beyond Church Doors, and Behind and Beyond Church Doors: Promises. Sylvia is a graduate of Rutgers University (B.A.) and Rider University (M.A.). More information about the series can be found on her website at www.sylviabrownroberts.com. Sylvia is featured on the Good News CD with Peggy Lee Brown and Ray Brown.

Jaclyn Duncan, Boston University graduate (2000), brings years of diverse musical experience to every performance. Trained classically on the piano from the age of 8, Jaclyn has performed as an accompanist at such renowned locations as The Julliard School of Music, New England Conservatory and Boston University. She has also shared the stage with Carnegie Hall soloist and Brooklyn Opera Company member James McClure as accompanist for solo productions. In addition to her achievements in collaborative piano, Ms. Duncan has performed and recorded extensively on flute throughout Boston, Massachusetts and Tokyo, Japan, playing selections from genres as diverse as jazz, funk, hip hop, reggae, folk, tribal, techno and drum & bass. Recordings include a Sony Japan release with correlating MTV Japan video.

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