Classical Discoveries - 12-26-2018 - MP3 - The Negro Speaks Of River

Wednesday, December 26, 2018 - from 5:00 till 11:00am

Classical Discoveries will present a special program devoted to music by black composers in observance of Kwanzaa.

Here is a list of some works and composers to be presented:
String Quartet No. 2: Four Thoughts on Marvin Gaye by Don Byron (1958- )
Concerto for Wind Quintet by Valerie Coleman (1970- )
Piano 2 by Julius Eastman (1940-1990)
Suite from the Quiet One by Ulysses Kay (1917-1995)
Inura for voices, strings and percussion by Tania León (1943- )
Fandango by Roberto Sierra (1953- )
Shadows by Alvin Singleton (1940- )
Salumba by Gambian composer, Foday Musa Suso (1950- )
Symphony No. 5 "Western Hemisphere" by William Grant Still (1895-1978)
Overture: In Praise of Folly by George Walker (1922-2018)
Cello Concerto by British composer, Errolyn Wallen (1958- )
Myths of History by Julius P. Williams (1954- )
and more

Check other programs devoted to music by black composers

Playlist and MP3 File *(available after the broadcast till January 10, 2019)

**December - 26 - 2018** **- MP3**
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listen 12/26/2018-10:00-11:00

Wednesday, December 26, 2018 - 05:00 - 11:00
THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
Other programs devoted to music by black composers

Composer	Work	Performers	label	air time

Castellano, Jennifer	The Castle at Sunrise (Opening)	Jennifer Castellano, Piano	CD Baby	5:30
Bonds, Margaret	The Negroo Speaks of Rivers	Robert Huneysucker, baritone, Vivian Taylor, piano	Koch International Classics - 3-7247	5:01
Still, William Grant	Symphony no. 5, "Western Hemisphere"	Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter, conductor	Naxos - 8.559603	5:05
Dett, R. Nathaniel	O Holy Lord	The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, conductor	Marquis - 7 74718 12932	5:26
Roumain, Daniel Bernard (DBR)	Volvic Maritim	The Rawlins Piano Trio	Albany Records - TROY1125	5:33
Alston, Lettie	Echoes from the Spirit	Cedric D. Alston & Roderic S. Leon, electronic keyboards	Albany Records - TROY439	5:47
Price, Florence	Dances in the Canebrakes	Althea Waites, piano	Cambria - CD-1097	5:53

Simpson-Curenton, Evelyn	My Soul Hath Found Refuge in Thee	Chorus of the Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota, Philip Brunelle, conductor	Collins Classics - 14762	6:07
Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor	Sonata A la Baroque for solo flute	Laurel Zucker, flute	Cantilena Records	6:14
Coleman, Valerie	Concerto for Wind Quintet	Imani Winds	Koch International Classics - CD-7599	6:27
Kay, Ulysses	Suite from "The Quiet One"	Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra, Kevin Scott, conductor	Albany Records - TROY961	6:42

White, Clarence Cameron	Levee Dance	Rachel Barton Pine, violin, Matthew Hagle, piano	Cedille - CDR 90000 182	7:07
Abels, Michael	Global Warming	Chicago Sinfonietta, Paul Freeman, conductor	Cedille - CDR 90000 066	7:12
Hailstork, Adolphus	Eslanda Dances	Ambrosia Quartet	Albany Records - 1680	7:22
Jobarteh, Maya Sona	Song of the Waterfall	Tunde Jegede, kora, cello and pizzicato cello, Maya Sona Jobarteh, kora	Triciom Records - TriCD 1001	7:36
Jegede, Tunde	Lamentation	London Sinfonietta	Triciom Records - TriCD 1001	7:44
Byron, Don	String Quartet No. 2: Four Thoughts on Marvin Gaye	Ethel	Innova - 820	7:48

Sierra, Roberto	Fandangos	Nashville Symphony. Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor	Naxos - 8.559738	8:00
White, Dolores	Toccata	Karen Walwyn, piano	Albany Records - TROY 266	8:16
Singleton, Alvin	Shadows	Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw, conductor	First Edition Music - FECD-0043	8:22
Traditional Ethiopia	Derbabba	XVIII-21 Le Baroque Nomade, Jean-Christophe Frisch, conductor	Evidence - EVCD014	8:45
Wallen, Errollyn	Cello Concerto	Matthew Sharp, cello, Orchestra X, Nicholas Kok, conductor	NMC - D221	8:54

Montgomery, Jessie	Break Away	PUBLIQuartet	Azica - ACD-71302	9:19
Williams, Julius P.	Myths of History	Louise Topppin, voice, Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams, conductor	Albany Records - TROY1314	9:32
Suso, Foday Musa	Salumba	Jeffrey Zeigler, electric cello and electronics	National Sawdust - NS-026	9:41
Eastman, Julius	Piano 2	Joseph Kubera, piano	New World Records - 80745-2	9:49

Walker, George	Overture :In Praise of Folly	Sinfonia Varsovia, Ian Hobson, conductor	Albany Records - TROY1061	10:06
Leon, Tania	Inura	Son Sonora Voices, Son Sonora Ensemble, DanceBrazil Percussion, Tania Leon, conductor	Albany Records - TROY1284	10:16
Ellington, Duke, arr. Wendall Logan	In A Sentimental Mood	Rachel Barton Pine, violin, Matthew Hagle, piano	Cedille - CDR 90000 182	10:55

Links where to buy CD used in current show:
Innova Recordings
New World Records

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