Randye Jones
Dominique-René de Lerma forwards this release from Randye Jones:
Today
marks the official launch of The Spirituals Database. Thanks to all
for sharing your comments and suggestions. Please forward this
announcement as far and wide as you wish.
The Spirituals Database
is currently a searchable database of nearly 1600 tracks from
recordings of Spirituals settings for the solo voice. Launched in
March, 2015, it is part of The Art of the Negro Spiritual and carries on
that project’s efforts to discover and share information about this
music’s potential role in developing a singer’s repertoire.
The project’s goal is the eventual publication of a discography of Spiritual art songs.
The
primary–but far from exclusive–audience is the voice student and
coach/teacher who is looking for these recorded resources. All too
often, recordings may be the first exposure a vocalist has to the
Spiritual. That person, likely unfamiliar with the genre and with the
singers who have recorded these art songs, can use these recordings as a
resource in the study of how Spirituals can be performed in a concert
setting.
Even the more experienced performer of this repertoire
will have reason to seek out information about the wide range of
recordings–including a number of rare or out-of-print long-playing (33
1/3 rpm) and 78 rpm albums, audio cassettes and 45 rpm discs–represented
here.
More information is available on The Spirituals Database, located at http://spirituals-database.com.
Soprano
and researcher Randye Jones, the database's creator, holds her Bachelor
of Arts degree in Music Education from Bennett College in Greensboro,
North Carolina, and her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from
Florida State University, Tallahassee. She is currently a doctoral
student in Vocal Literature at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Jones has gained recognition for her research of and published writings
on African American vocalists and composers and as a performer and
lecturer through her project, The Art of the Negro Spiritual.
She
regularly presents lecture-recitals and concerts at events such as the
Research, Education, Activism and Performance National Conference on
Spirituals, African American Art Song Alliance Conference and the
Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VIII in St. John’s,
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Jones brings over 20 years of library
experience, including her current position as the media room supervisor
for the library at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, to the task of
creating The Spiritual Database’s content.
Please direct inquiries and comments to Randye Jones at ansdiscog@spirituals-database.com.
Dominique-René de Lerma
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