Recordings:
Audio and Video
Preview this selection from Velma's extensive
repertory.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Excerpts from
Three Houses by Velma P. Smith,
narrated by the author.
   
Three Houses is now available on
Amazon.
Eulogy
Integration
    *Link redirects to YouTube.com.
POETRY
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen
Ante-Bellum Sermon by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Crucifixion (from God's Trombones)
by James Weldon Johnson
De Prodigal Son, Anonymous
VOCAL
Total Praise by Richard Smallwood
Give Me Jesus, Negro Spiritual
I Want Jesus To Walk With Me, Negro Spiritual
Soon I Will Be Done by James Cleveland, Black Gospel
SECULAR
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (in the style of Roberta Flack)
Ne Me Quitte Pas (in the style of Nina Simone)
I Dreamed A Dream by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music),
John Cameron (orchestrations), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics)
INSTRUMENTAL
A 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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