Songs by American Composers, a special concert featuring Juilliard-trained baritone James Martin, the head of the vocal department at Dickinson University, and collaborative pianist Dr. Lynn Raley, Associate Professor at Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi. The 3 PM program includes "The Convex Beauty of Sailing Souls," a song cycle written by Maria Corley to texts by her late brother, Terence Thompson, who died in 1988 shortly after his 25th birthday. The poetry was found among his papers as her mother prepared to move to Lancaster. The program also includes works by H. T. Burleigh, Moses Hogan, Hall Johnson, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Tom Cipullo, Richard Hundley, Lee Hoiby, Leonard Bernstein, Chris DeBlasio and David Amram.