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Ludovic Lamothe CENTER: Fleurs
d`Haiti, 10 Selections de Piano par Ludovic Lamothe Compositeur;
Disques Victor
BOTTOM: Valses
to Voodoo: Piano Music of Haitian Composer Ludovic Lamothe;
Joshua Russell, piano (2010) (44:06)]
Ludovic Lamothe is one of Haiti's most renowned classical composers. He was
born in Port-au-Prince, his country's capital, on May 12, 1882. Both
of his parents were pianists, and Ludovic took his first piano
lessons from his mother. Vodou
Nation: Haitian Art Music And Cultural Nationalism,
written by Michael Largey, and published by The University of Chicago
Press (2006), is an important reference source for his music.
Ludovic
Lamothe is profiled at AfriClassical.com
which
features a comprehensive Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de
Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com The CD Valses to Voodoo can be ordered for $15 plus shipping at Joshua Russell's website,
http://www.joshuarussellpianist.com/products/An earlier CD which is still available is A Vision of Ludovic
Lamothe by pianist Charles P. Phillips, on IFA Music Records
(2001). C-Force, a trio based in the Bahamas, has arranged
and recorded a 1:34 version of Lamothe's Nibo, written as a
protest to the military occupation of Haiti by the United
States. It appears on the trio's debut CD Tchaka Mizik
released in 2010.
Comment by email: Hello Bill, Thank you very much! Happy Birthday to Lamothe! Joshua Russell
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