This Week in Exploring Music: Portraits in Black, Brown and Beige Part 1, the first of a two part series in celebration of African-American composers and performers.

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Dominique-René de Lerma forwards this Weekly Playlist for Exploring Music With Bill McLaughlin on The WFMT Radio Network from March 31-April 4, 2014:

Trad.: Egwabo/Welcome (Ghana) (excerpts) Arc 1950 :56, :42 Trad.: “Lord, How Come Me Here?” Marian Anderson, contralto; Franz Rupp, piano RCA 61960 2:12 Trad: “In that New Jerusalem” Smithsonian Folkways 2657 2:00 Trad.: “I Been in de Storm So Long” Marian Anderson, contralto RCA 61960 3:10 Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Quartet No. 2 In B Flat Major, I & II Apollon Quartet Avenida 276011 11:05 Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Adagio fr. Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major Encore Chamber Orchestra/Hege; Rachel Barton, v. Cedille 035 5:52 Trad.: “Move Daniel” & “Pharaoh’s Host Got Lost” McIntosh County Singers Smithsonian Folkways 4344 3:49, 1:38 Trad.: “I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon” Marian Anderson, contralto; Rupp, p. RCA 61960 2:37 Trad.: Deep River Tuskegee Institute Choir Westminster 8154 3:23 x

Trad.: “Every Time I Feel the Spirit” Leadbelly, voc. Smithsonian Folkways 40194 3:27 Trad./Burleigh: “Go Down Moses” Harry T. Burleigh, baritone Arch 1005 2:06 Trad.: “Trouble” Michel Larue, voc Smithsonian Folkways 05252 1:54 Joseph White: Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor Encore Chamber Orchestra/Hege; Rachel Barton, v. Cedille 35 21:36 Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag Boston Pops Orchestra/Fiedler Universal Classics B0002916-02 3:20 Scott Joplin: Ragtime Dance Philip Jones Brass Ensemble Universal Classics B0002916-02 2:42 Scott Joplin: Solace – A Mexican Serenade Morton Gunnar Larsen, f. Universal Classics B0002916-02 7:17 Trad.: La Bella Cubana Juan Carlos Valdivia, v.; Leonor Martínez, p. Music Trends Records B001Q21MT4 5:19; 1:39 Trad.: “Salangadou” Michel Larue, voc. Smithsonian Folkways 05252 :56 Trad.: “Gwine to Alabamy” Michel Larue, voc. Smithsonian Folkways 05252 1:37 Trad.: “A City Called Heaven” Terence Blanchard, p.; Jubilant Sykes, bar. Sony 63294 4:22 Foster: “Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair” Thomas Hampson; Michael Parloff, fl. EMI 41645 1:52 Foster: Old Folks at Home & My Old Kentucky Home Jay Ungar/Matt Glaser/Evan Stover/Molly Mason/Tony Trischka EMI 54621 4:56 James A. Bland: “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” Louis Armstrong & the Mills Brothers Giants of Jazz 3:05 Sydney Lambert: Rescue Polka Mazurka Center for Black Music Research 3:16 Scott Joplin: Bethena (A Concert Waltz) Eric Rogers, p. Universal CL (DG) B0002916-02 5:24 Joplin: Treemonisha (excerpts) Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and Singers New World 80720 19:33 Trad.: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” Apollo Jubilee Quartette Arch 1005 2:44 Trad.: “Salangadou” (excerpt) Eartha Kitt 1:22 V James S. Scott: Frog Legs Rag Center for Black Music Research www.colum.edu/CBMR/ 3:47 R. Nathaniel Dett: In the Bottoms   I. Prelude   II. His Song   III. Honey   IV. Barcarolle   V. Dance Natalie Hinderas, p. CRI 629 18:19 William Grant Still: Symphony #1, Afro-American Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Järvi Chandos 9154 12:43, 11:25 Noble Sissle: Great Camp Meetin’ Day Ford Dabney’s Band Arch 1005 2:39 Trad.: “I Just Come from the Fountain” Michel Larue, voc. Smithsonian Folkways 5252 1:08   Trad: “Let Us Break Bread Together” Terence Blanchard, p.; Jubilant Sykes, bar. Sony 63294 2:44   Trad.: “Joe Hill” Paul Robeson, bass Smithsonian Folkways 40026 3:05   James Reese Europe: Castle House Rag Center for Black Music Research, Chicago 3:16   Florence Price: Concerto in One Movement New Black Music Repertory Ensemble/Leslie B. Dunner,Karen Walwyn, p. Albany 1295 18:29   Florence Price: Symphony in E Minor, III & IV New Black Music Repertory Ensemble/Leslie B. Dunner 9:13   Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Lamentations for solo cello Tahirah Whittington, vc. Cedille 87 2:35   Antonín Dvorák, arr. Tatum: Humoresque Art Tatum, p. 4:46   I Got You (I Feel Good) James Brown 2:49   Diggin' on James Brown Tower of Power 4:40