Digital Program

Harmonies of Heritage

Saturday, February 7, 2026, 7:00pm

Jones chapel, Meredith College

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Meredith College | Meredith Department of Music

Meredith College Music | Special Thanks to Meredith College for its use of Jones Auditorium and Chapel for rehearsals and performances, the Meredith College Department of Music, Mr. Bill Brown, Mr. Jim Frick, and the Meredith College Facilities Services staff.

Ruggero Piano

Ruggero Piano est. 1958 | Proud Supporter of the Raleigh Symphony | North Carolina's Most Complete Piano Showroom & Service Center Since 1958

Home is at the heart of Ruggero Piano...a Raleigh institution that sells and services pianos. Founder Robert Ruggero opened his piano tuning and repair business in 1958, working from his family's Raleigh home. When his son, Richard Ruggero, took over the business in 1981, Richard moved it to his own family's house nearby. "We were in my garage, and later my dining room, and later my family room - then we decided we had outgrown our house," Richard Ruggero says. A handful of locations later, Ruggero Piano is now a familiar sight on Hargrove Road, where the Ruggero Piano team sells and services a wide array of pianos.

Ruggero's team includes his wife, Deborah Ruggero, and one of their sons, Chris Ruggero, along with ten other long-term team members. Ruggero talks about them all as if they're family - and he says they consider their customers as part of the family too. "When we sell a piano, we like to say it's not the end of the relationship, it's actually just the beginning," Richard says. "We're going to take care of that piano." They do that with home visits to services, tune, and repair and instrument sold from their store.

Over the years, Ruggero Piano's retail business has picked up and expanded to include recognizable piano brands like Yamaha as well as specialty brands. The shop's community reach has also expanded: Ruggero sells and rents top-quality instruments at a heavy discount to nonprofits and performing arts organizations in an effort to "make it more affordable to have good live music." - Walter Magazine

www.ruggeropiano.com | 919.839.2040 | 4720-120 Hargrove Rd. Raleigh, NC

A certified dealer of Yamaha, Bosendorfer, Schimmel, Estonia, and Clavinova instruments.

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Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Inc. is supported by the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County as well as the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Community Partners:

Meredith College Department of Music | Ruggero Piano | Cultural Voice of North Carolina | Raleigh Music Collective

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Jim Waddelow, Artistic Director

Andrea McKerlie Luke, Executive Director

Eliandras Sims, Artistic Manager

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Concert Program: Harmonies of Heritage

Calvary | Betty Jackson King

Tina Morris-Anderson, Soprano; Monet Jowers, Piano

From the Cotton Fields | Clarence Cameron White

Cabin Song
Spiritual

The Silver Urn | Margaret Bonds

Greg Logan, Violin; Monet Jowers, Piano

Pantomime Fantasy | Ulysses Kay

Jim Williams, Clarinet

Watch and Pray | Undine Smith Moore

Tina Morris-Anderson, Soprano; Monet Jowers, Piano

Clarinet Quintet | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

IV Finale – Allegro agitato

Jim Williams, Clarinet; Greg Logan, Violin;

Alisyn Rogerson, Violin; Jean Bynum, Viola; Julia Malone, Cello

The Deserted Garden | Florence Price

Janet Shurtleff, Oboe; Monet Jowers, Piano

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands | Margaret Bonds

Tina Morris-Anderson, Soprano; Monet Jowers, Piano

Danzas de Panama | William Grant Still

Tamborito
Mejorana y Socavon
Punto
Cumbia y Congo

Greg Logan, Violin; Alisyn Rogerson, Violin;

Jean Bynum, Viola; Julia Malone, Cello

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Featured Artists

Tina Morris-Anderson

Tina Morris-Anderson has been a featured vocalist with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and the Raleigh and Durham Symphony Orchestras. She performed in the North Carolina Opera’s Porgy and Bess and in the NC Opera Chorus with Andrea Bocelli. A member of the Deep River Singers, she performed at Carnegie Hall in 2023. Tina has performed in many Triangle theatrical productions, including The Face of Emmett Till (Mamie), The Dance on Widow’s Row (Magnolia), Bourbon at the Border (May), Bright Star (Alice), Cinderella (Fairy Godmother), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Nell), Ghost: The Musical (Oda Mae) and Hairspray (Motormouth Maybelle). Tina lives in Raleigh with her husband Paul Anderson; they have two talented sons, Paul II and Noah.

Greg Logan attended Appalachian State University and North Carolina Central University, achieving a B.A. in Music Education from NCCU in 1987.

He taught as a Moore County orchestra director from 1987 until 1991, and a Wake county orchestra director from 1991 until 2015 (elementary, middle and high school). He has been the Concertmaster of the Raleigh Civic Symphony, a former teacher with the NC Chamber Music Institute, 1st violinist with the Charleston and Florence symphony orchestras, and is currently a member of the Barton College orchestra in Wilson, N.C.