Sunday, August 14, 2011

CBMR.org: 'Two New CDs in the Recorded Music of the African Diaspora Series,' Violin Music & Florence Price


[TOP: Tami Lee Hughes; Legacy: Violin Music of African American Composers; Albany Records TROY1293 (2011) Cover Art: “Initially Yours” by Alicia McDaniel, http://www.artisticheart.com/ BOTTOM: Center for Black Music Research]

The CBMR Newsletter is distributed by email to members of the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), http://www.colum.edu/cbmr, at Columbia College Chicago. AfriClassical presents an excerpt from the August 2011 Newsletter:

Announcing Two New CDs in the Recorded Music of the African Diaspora Series

Legacy: Violin Music by African-American Composers

Tami Lee Hughes, violin
Ellen Bottorff, piano

Francis Johnson, Bingham’s Cotillion (1820)
George Morrison, Five Violin Solos (1947)
David N. Baker, Jazz Suite (1979)
Ozie C. Cargile II, Mixed Feelings (2000)
Chad “Sir Wick” Hughes, S.L.I.C.E. (2009)


Florence B. Price Orchestral Music
Volume 3 (TROY1295) available Fall 2011.

New Black Music Repertory Ensemble
Leslie B. Dunner, conductor
Karen Walwyn, piano

Concerto in One Movement (1934)
Symphony in E Minor (1932)


Music by Mary D. Watkins and Olly W. Wilson

New Black Music Repertory Ensemble
Kirk Smith, conductor
Leslie B. Dunner, conductor
Bonita Hyman, mezzo soprano
Rodrick Dixon, tenor
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone

Mary D. Watkins, Five Movements in Color (1993)
Olly W. Wilson, Of Visions and Truth A Song Cycle (1991)

The Recorded Music of the African Diaspora series is coproduced by the Center for Black Music Research and Albany Records. The recordings are available through albanyrecords.com and amazon.com. [Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works Lists by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com]

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