Program Notes
Disc 1: What a Mighty God
1. Witness—Jack Halloran (1986) [3:27] 2. Hush! Somebody’s Callin’ My Name—arr. Brazeal W. Dennard (1986) - [4:40] 3. Death Is Gonna Lay His Cold Icy Hands on Me—arr. André Thomas (1993) - [3:45] 4. Walk Together, Children—arr. William Henry Smith (1937) - [2:33] 5. Were You There?—arr. Robert Scholz (1982) - [4:00] 6. Elijah Rock—arr. Moses Hogan (1992) - [3:42] 7. This Train—arr. Sanford Moore (1988) - [7:39] 8. Jesus, Lover of My Soul—arr. Richard Smallwood (1992) - [5:22] 9. My Lord, What a Mornin’—arr. Harry T. Burleigh (1929) - [3:40] 10. Go Down, Moses—arr. Robert A. Harris (1984) - [5:12 } 11. In Dat Great Gittin’ Up Mornin’—arr. Jester Hairston (1930) - [3:03] 12. Crucifixion—Adolphus Hailstork (1973) - [5:14] 13. Go Where I Send Thee—arr. André Thomas (1989) - [3:27] 14. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot—arr. Dale Adelmann (1988) - [3:27] 15. Go, Tell It on the Mountain—arr. Sanford Moore (1993) - [5:04] 16. What a Mighty God—arr. Michael Abels (1992) - [4:14]
Total Timing: 69:11
Disc 2: Skyward My People Rose
1. Wailing Woman - [9:12] 2. Swanee River (Old Folks at Home) - [2:56] And They Lynched Him on a Tree 3. We’ve swung him higher - [3:37] 4. Look dere - [2:05] 5. Oh, sorrow - [4:33] 6. He was her baby - [3:32] 7. They took away his freedom - [2:08] 8. They left him hanging - [2:09] Miss Sally’s Party 9. Introduction - [2:07] 10. The Square Dance - [2:28] 11. Tia’s Dance - [2:40] 12. Toby and Tip’s Dance - [1:56] 13. The Country Dance - [2:33] 14. Miss Sally’s Dance - [1:18] 15. Jim Slick’s Dance - [2:44] 16. The Cake Walk Contes - [3:16] 17. Reverie - [3:56] 18. Elegy - [5:25]
Total Timing: 58:50
Disc 3: Dance Like the Wind
1. Mother to Son : Undine Smith Moore (1955) - [ 2:41 ] 2. We Shall Walk Through the Valley: Undine Smith Moore (1977) - [ 2:54 ] from Lamentations: Black Folk Song Suite : Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1973) - [ 7:13 ] 3. II Song Form 4. IV Perpetual Motion 5. An Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct: Joseph Jennings (1995) - [ 9:49 ] from Dance Like the Wind : William Banfield (1995) - [ 9:25 ] 6. She’s Making Coffee (Act A, scene 4) 7. All Four in the Car (Act B, scene 5) 8. Dance Like the Wind (Island Sway) (Act B, scene 6a) 9. Tambourines to Glory: Undine Smith Moore (1973) - [ 1:03 ] 10. My Soul Hath Found Refuge in Thee (Psalm 91) : Evelyn Simpson-Curenton (1996) - [ 4:54 ] 11. Nocturne : Adolphus Hailstork (1984) - [ 6:59 ] from Piece for String Orchestra : Billy Childs (1989) 12. II Slow 13. III Fast Images, Shadows and Dreams: Five Vignettes : David Baker (1993) 14. I Rents Due Monday 15. II The Nonagenarian 16. III If There Be Sorrow 17. IV The Rebel 18. V Let Me Tell You How to Meet the Day
Total Timing: 75:26
Disc 4: Got the Saint Louis Blues
1. Saint Louis Blues : William C. Handy, arr. Hall Johnson (1914/1936) [ 4:26 ] 2. O Southland : Harry T. Burleigh (1919) - [ 3:08 ] 3. Song for Snow : Florence B. Price (1930) - [ 1:57 ] 4. Moon Bridge : Florence B. Price (1930) - [ 2:23 ] 5. Listen to the Lambs : R. Nathaniel Dett(1914) [ 4:28 ] 6. Ethiopia’s Paean to Exaltation : Harry T. Burleigh (1921) - [ 5:40 ] 7. Poor Mourner’s Got a-Home at Last : arr. Carl Diton (1914) - [ 3:!4 ] 8. Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody : arr. James P. Johnson (1927) - [ 15:49 ] 9. The Chariot Jubilee : R. Nathaniel Dett (1919) - [ 11:43 ] 10. Charlestonia: Folk Rhapsody for Orchestra, No. 1 : Edmund Thornton Jenkins (1917) - [ 9:30 ] 11. Ave Maria : R. Nathaniel Dett (1930) - [ 3:31 ]
Total Timing: 66:35
Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com, writes:
It is not only within this series
that VocalEssence has recorded music by Black composers. In the album, From
the land of sky blue water, appears We shall walk through the valley
(Undine Smith Moore) and My soul's been anchored in the Lord (Moses
Hogan), which is also included in The world beloved; A bluegrass Mass.
With Brunelle sharing the podium with Anton Armstrong (St. Olaf College),
Sigrid Johnson and André Thomas, one CD is fully given to the works of
Thomas, from the faculty of Florida State University, the singers coming from
the St. Olaf Choir and singers of the area's high schools: African noel,
Barbara Allen, Beautiful city, Deep river, Go where I send thee, Here's a
pretty little baby, Hold fast to dreams, I couldn' t hear nobody pray, I dream
a world, I hear America singing, I open my mouth, Keep your lamps, My good
Lord's done been here, Peter go ring dem bells, Rockin' Jerusalem, Swing down
chariot, The kingdom, and Walk in my shoes,
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