Songs of Pangea

The Pangean mountains are an extensive mountain range spanning the Scottish Highlands to the Appalachian Mountains. Once, these mountains were one landmass (Pangean mountain), now they are divided and located on different continents.

In this recital, Dr. Alexander Lee, Dr. Henning Vauth, and Dr. Júlio Alves, will perform music from different regions. The program will include Benjamin Britten’s Folksong arrangements (Scottish, Ireland, and England), Kenneth Frazelle’s Appalachian Folksong arrangements, Johannes Brahms’s Folksong arrangements, Heitor Villa-Lobos’s art songs, and Moses Hogan’s Spiritual arrangements.

This program came from Dr. Lee’s desire to express our need for unity through troubling times. Our world is divided politically, ideologically, religiously, racially, and ethnically. However, like all continents and lands were once one, it is essential to remember the root of all people and countries are identical.

It is Alexander Lee’s desire that this program reminds audiences that although everything seems divided, we all share the same origin and root. Like these songs from different areas (and land) came from one ancient mountain family (Central Pangean Mountain), we are all from one family.