Marti Newland
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Artis Wodehouse of MELODEON:
Swing Along! by Will Marion Cook
Published on Apr 22, 2013
Soprano Marti Newland performs Swing
Along! by Will Marion Cook 4/7/13 live in concert presented by
MELODEON. She is accompanied by Artis Wodehouse, pianist. This video was
filmed during the 3rd in a series of concerts presented by MELODEON at
Church of the Epiphany, NYC during 2012-13. MELODEON performs American
music from the 19th and early 20th century.
Swing Along! was
written by Will Marion Cook (1869-1944), one of the most important
figures in pre-jazz African-American music. Born in Washington D.C. of
free, educated Afro-American parents, Cook's early musical promise was
such that Frederick Douglass helped organize a fundraiser to send him to
study in Europe. There he studied at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik
with Joseph Joachim, the famous violinist and associate of Brahms. He
later studied with Dvorak when that famous European composer visited the
US.
However, Cook of necessity turned to popular music as his
classical career was not successful in the US. He became one of the most
important early Afro-American composers of musicals and reviews
featuring pre-jazz ragtime and related Afro-American vernacular styles.
The popularity of his music was such that in 1912 G. Schirmer issued a
collection of Three Negro Songs by Cook: Exhortation (from In Dahomey),
Rain Song (from Bandanna Land), and Swing Along! (from the musical of
the same name). As mentor and teacher, Cook influenced a generation of
young African-American musicians, including jazz composer and performer
Duke Ellington and singer/choir director Eva Jessye,
Audio and video by Whitney Slaten.
Comment by email:
Comment by email:
Dear Mr. Zick, Your important and meaningful work with
AfriClassical's blog continues to amaze me. Thank you for featuring
"Swing Along" and for for the notice about it! On we go. Warmly, Marti Newland
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