MAN WITHOUT A HOME is a recital that traces a journey of movement, displacement, and self-authorship, moving between New Orleans, Europe, and the interior landscapes shaped by memory, lineage, and survival. Rather than presenting a single narrative, the program allows many musical voices to articulate what it means to search for belonging in spaces not originally designed to hold you.

The first half confronts the external world: inherited systems, performance, and the masks required to endure them. Works by Mozart, Saint-Georges, Leoncavallo, and Chaplin sit alongside spiritual and popular song, revealing how beauty, irony, and suffering often coexist. The arc culminates in the tension between collapse and composure, leaving resolution deliberately withheld.

After the interval, the recital turns inward. Selections from the cycle Nightsongs by H. Leslie Adams form the spiritual and emotional center of the evening, offering prayer, reflection, and dignity through the lens of Black interior life. Songs by Margaret Bond, Florence Price and Courtney Bryan assert voice, visibility, and endurance, while works by Gershwin, Hailstork, Thiele and Weiss expand the idea of home as something communal, provisional, and deeply human.

Together, these works form a musical portrait of a man not without origin, but in continual motion. Finding home not as a fixed place, but as an act of singing, listening, and being fully present.