As part of Black History Month, the OCM celebrates composers and artists of African descent featuring Cameroonian-Canadian soprano Suzanne Taffot and Panamanian-American conductor Kalena Bovell. The program highlights works by African-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, African-American composers George Walker and William Grant Still, and the world premiere of a song cycle, Le Deuil des roses qui s’effeuillent, by Haitian-Canadian composer David Bontemps based on poems by Jacques Roumain whose 80th anniversary of his passing is being commemorated.