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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Excerpts from Three Houses by Velma P. Smith,
narrated by the author.
   Three Houses is now available on Amazon.

Audio IconEulogy


 

Audio IconIntegration

 

Video IconA Double Standard

 

Just Before Christmas

    *Link redirects to YouTube.com.
 
Velma; Gwendolyn Brooks

POETRY


Audio IconThe Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

 

Audio IconYet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen

 

Audio IconAnte-Bellum Sermon by Paul Laurence Dunbar

 

Audio IconThe Crucifixion (from God's Trombones) by James Weldon Johnson

 
Velma P. Smith

Audio IconDe Prodigal Son, Anonymous

 
Velma P. Smith

VOCAL


Audio IconTotal Praise by Richard Smallwood

 

Video IconGive Me Jesus, Negro Spiritual

 

pianist

Audio IconI Want Jesus To Walk With Me, Negro Spiritual


 

Audio IconSoon I Will Be Done by James Cleveland, Black Gospel

 

SECULAR

Video Icon The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (in the style of Roberta Flack)


 

Audio IconNe Me Quitte Pas (in the style of Nina Simone)


 

Audio IconI Dreamed A Dream by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music),
John Cameron (orchestrations), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics)


 
clarinetist

INSTRUMENTAL


Video IconA Change Gonna Come by Sam Cooke; Jaime Casco, keyboard





TESTIMONIAL


Her programs are thought provoking, and when she is presenting, she rocks the house.

Alan Hall, NHC




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