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The Sound of African-American Classical

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The Sound of African-American Classical

Title

Album

Date added

3 Visions: No. 2, Summerland

William Grant Still

Citizen

04:53

String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor: II. Andante cantabile (Arr. Colbert for String Ensemble)

Florence Beatrice Price, Sphinx Virtuosi

Price: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor: II. Andante cantabile (Arr. Colbert for String Ensemble)

07:06

Lyric for Strings

George Walker

African American Voices

05:22

Montgomery Variations: Montgomery Variations: I. Decision

Margaret Bonds, Kellen Gray, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Montgomery Variations: I. Decision

01:41

3 Spirituals for Orchestra: No. 3, Oh Freedom

Adolphus Hailstork

Hailstork: Orchestral Music

02:26

8 Bible Vignettes: No. 3, As His Own Soul

Robert Nathaniel Dett

American Spiritual

02:43

Strum

Jessie Montgomery

Strum: Music for Strings

06:53

Femenine: No. 1, Prime

Julius Eastman

Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine

08:48

We Shall Walk Through The Valley (arr. Undine Smith Moore for Apollo5)

Undine Smith Moore, Apollo5

02:53

Indígena

Tania León

Tania León: Indígena

08:26

Nocturne

Zenobia Powell Perry

Zenobia Powell Perry: Piano Works

02:12

The Entertainer

Scott Joplin

Fingerbreaker: Classics Of Ragtime And Early Jazz Piano

03:53

Dusk

Nkeiru Okoye

Kete - Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora

03:24

Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me

Duke Ellington

Late Night Etta James

04:17

Lovely, Dark and Lonely One

Harry Burleigh

Lovely, Dark and Lonely One

02:59

Pietà (Version for English Horn & Orchestra)

Ulysses Kay, Anna Mattix, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, Joann Falletta

Copland, Creston & Others: Orchestral Works

08:44

Evocation

Hale Smith

Piano Music by African-American Composers

03:21

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: IV. Fast

Julia Perry

American Counterpoints

01:22

Untitled Composition for Piano and Eight Voices

Tyshawn Sorey

STILLPOINT

10:35

Unknown Person (From Baggage Allowance)

Pamela Z

A Secret Code

05:30

Revelry: II. War

Valerie Coleman, Decoda

Decoda

03:09

Composition No. 1 (1968)

Anthony Braxton

Piano Music (Notated) 1968-1988

10:20

Non Nobis, Domine

Rosephanye Powell

02:55

Night Fantasy: I. Largo

Dorothy Rudd Moore

But Not Forgotten

06:13

Lecolion Loops: after Uti Vår Hage

Daniel Bernard Roumain

Legacy

05:40

Middleground

Shelley Washington, PUBLIQuartet

Freedom and Faith

09:21

02:55

African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 3

08:24

Four Dances for Boris

Jeffrey Mumford

05:24

Billie's Song

Valerie Capers

01:33

Squares (An Essay for Orchestra) - Remastered

Thomas Jefferson Anderson

Black Composer Series, Vol. 8: Olly Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Jefferson Anderson, Jr. & Talib Rasul Hakim (Remastered)

07:33

Pursuit (After Ravel's "Scarbo, M. 55")

Billy Childs

Pursuit (After Ravel's "Scarbo, M. 55")

08:10

Expansions III

Olly Wilson

Still: Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American" / Kaintuck' / Dismal Swamp - Wilson: Expansions III

13:02

Overture to "In Dahomey"

Will Marion Cook, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Rick Benjamin

08:19

Lift Every Voice and Sing

J. Rosamond Johnson

04:46

Easter Monday Swagger, Scherzino

Thomas Kerr

Piano Music by African-American Composers

04:29

Louisiana Blues Strut: A Catwalk

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Perkinson: Louisiana Blues Strut: A Catwalk

02:52

Global Solstice

Gregory T.S. Walker

Electric Vivaldi: Global Solstice

17:35

Ice (Jascha Narveson Remix)

Eleonore Oppenheim

Ice (Jascha Narveson Remix)

08:49

Sneed: Beauty That Is Never Old

Damien Sneed

Rising

01:47

Sunflower Slow Drag

Scott Hayden

Joplin: Rags & Waltzes

04:06

Time Past, Time Future

Alvin Singleton

STILLPOINT

12:29

23:33

Piano Music by African-American Composers

05:54

Los Campanillas

Basile Bares

Music of Basile Barès

02:17

Lullaby (Arr. for Violin & Piano)

Betty Jackson King

Violin Lullabies

02:41

Death of an Old Seaman

Cecil Cohen, Langston Hughes, Odekhiren Amaize, David Korevaar

The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Art Songs by African-American Composers

02:11

Le Calabrais, Op. 39: Le Calabrais, Galop brilliant, Op. 39

Charles Lucien Lambert

Lambert Sr. / Lambert Jr: Ouverture De Broceliande / Bresiliana / L'Amazone

02:14

Levee Dance, Op. 26 No. 2

Clarence Cameron White

Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers

03:55

Continuance

Daniel Kidane

Lost & Found

02:05