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Free organ and choral concert Sunday

2/6/2015, 3:06 p.m.
River Road Church, Baptist, will commemorate Black History Month with an organ and choral concert. Organist Rasaan Hakiem Bourke of …

River Road Church, Baptist, will commemorate Black History Month with an organ and choral concert.

Organist Rasaan Hakiem Bourke of New York City will perform, along with The One Voice Chorus Ensemble of Richmond at the church at 8000 River Road.

The free concert is 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8.

Mr. Bourke, the director of music at First Presbyterian Church of Hacken- sack, N.J., is to perform works by Duke Ellington, J.S. Bach, Gerre Hancock, Gerald Near, Samuel Barber and Antonin Dvorak.Healsowillpresenta“Spiritual Triptych.”

The 35-voice choir, directed by Lynn G. Atkins Jr., will perform works by Moses Hogan, André Thomas, William H. Smith, Rollo Dilworth, Rosephayne Powell and others.

The concert is being presented by the Richmond Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and the E. Carl Freeman

Concert Series of River Road Church, Baptist.

For more information: (804) 288-1131.