Tuesday, January 19, 2010

'Pipedreams' on Public Radio: 'African-American composers and performers' in Week of Feb. 1


[James Lee, III]

American Public Media presents a weekly 2-hour broadcast of music for pipe organ on many Public Radio stations. During the week of February 1, 2010, the broadcast will be “In Black and White” and will feature a wide variety of Composers and Musicians of African Descent. To find a local station which airs the show, visit:
http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/stations/list.php

Pipedreams.PublicRadio.org
In Black and White
…a colorful collection of music featuring African-American composers and performers.
Week of February 01, 2010
Music played in the program

Hour 1

WAYNE MARSHALL: Fantasy after Gershwin, I got plenty of nottin’, from Porgy & Bess –Wayne Marshall (1992 Fisk/Meyerson Symkphony Center, Dallas, TX) Delos 3228

DAVID HURD: Evening Song [1978] –Lynn Zeigler (1987 Brombaugh/Iowa State University, Ames, IA) Calcante CD-026

JAMES LEE III: Ascend the Mountain: A Walk with Dr. King – Kenneth Logan (1996 Casavant/Pioneer Memorial Church, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 2/11/2000)

FELA SOWANDE: Go down, Moses –Nancy Cooper (1999 Bond/Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, Missoula, MT) Pro Organo 7139

FELA SOWANDE: K’a Mura. WILLIAM FARLEY SMITH: Great Day, duh Righteous Marchin! –Christopher Johnson (Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1118/Riverside Church, New York, NY) JAV 168

Hour 2

EUGENE HANCOCK: Four Spirituals (We are climbing Jacob’s ladder; Go, tell it on the mountain; My Lord, what a morning; Joshua fought the battle of Jericho) –Robert Scoggin (1967; 1983 Sipe/Christ United Methodist Church, Rochester, MN) Pipedreams 1002

WILLIAM B. COOPER: Toccatina & Pastorale –Mickey Thomas Terry (1970 Aeolian-Skinner/National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 2/20/94 & 11/18/93)

DUKE ELLINGTON: Come Sunday –Anders Paulsson, saxophone; Harry Huff (1975 Akerman & Lund/Katarina Church, Stockholm, Sweden) LCM 117

NOEL DaCOSTA: Ukom Memory Songs for Organ and Percussion –Earl Yowell, Steve Kimble, percussion; Mickey Thomas Terry (1985 Schantz/Church of St. Leo the Great, Saint Paul, MN) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 1/20/03)

DAVID HURD: Arioso and Finale [1992] –Stephen Tharp (1932 Aeolian-Skinner/Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York, NY) Ethereal CD-104

TRADITIONAL (arranged by Luboff): Deep River –Normon Luboff Choir; New Symphony Orchestra of London, Leopold Stokowski, conductor. RCA CD-62599
[Duke Ellington and Fela Sowande are profiled at AfriClassical.com]

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