Actor Robert Gibby Brand and pianist Robert Pherigo present “Voices of America: A Kaleidoscope of Artistic Vision” featuring poetry by Whitman, Hughes, Dickinson and others, and music by Copland, Adams, Beach, and others.

Presented free (donations welcomed) and held in the sanctuary at Westport Presbyterian Church. Bring a Lunch, if you wish. Coffee and Cookies will be provided at a reception following the performance.

Robert Pherigo is a composer, pianist and tenor who has been active in the Kansas City music scene for 30 years. As a tenor, Pherigo has sung with the Grammy-award-winning Kansas City Chorale for 10 years. He has also composed works for newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Kansas City Chorale, Lyric Arts Trio, Lawrence Children’s Choir, and various high school choirs. His arrangement of the well-known Christmas Carol “Sing We Now of Christmas” is published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing under the title of “Sing We Now, Noel!” He was a member of newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble for 15 years, participating in numerous world premiers and performing at modern music festivals in Thailand and China. He enjoys playing solo piano works, most recently performing Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” and Charles Ives’s “Concord Sonata.” His piano artistry can be heard on recordings of the music of Ingrid Stolzel, Narong Prancharoen, Mara Gibson, and on the album “Toward the Empyrean Heaven.” He is presently collaborative pianist at St. Teresa’s Academy and Unity Temple on the Plaza.

He is happy to be sharing the stage with his artistic brother and great friend, Bob Brand.