The Stonewall Chorale and Deanna Witkowski Present the U.S. Concert Premiere of Mass for the Lenten Season by Mary Lou Williams. Led by Artistic Director Cynthia Powell and accompanied by Mary Lou Williams scholar and jazz pianist Deanna Witkowski and her trio, the concert also includes Williams’s “Tell Him Not to Talk Too Long” and “I Have a Dream,” both inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Margaret Bonds’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” set to the poetry of Langston Hughes. The concert also features the world premiere of Witkowski’s a cappella setting of the Rabindranath Tagore poem, “Where the Mind is Without Fear.” Witkowski will give a pre-performance talk about the life and work of Mary Lou Williams at 7 p.m. All season concerts held at the acoustically beautiful Holy Apostles (28th & 9th) in Chelsea. Artistic Director, Cynthia Powell