Wednesday, November 25, 2015

SONO LUMINUS announces Lara Downes' label debut America Again; A compilation of American music inspired by Langston Hughes' poem Let America Be America Again

Lara Downes

Lara Downes writes:

SONO LUMINUS announces Lara Downes' label debut America Again
Coming soon: America Again, the debut Sono Luminus release by pianist Lara Downes, 2016 recipient of the Sphinx Organization Medal Of Excellence award.
A compilation of American music inspired by Langston Hughes' poem Let America Be America Again, this is music of a dream deferred, the dream of equality and opportunity that passes from one American generation to the next - a tribute to a chorus of voices that spans centuries: men and women, black and white, immigrants and pioneers.
As Hughes put it in 1938, and still so true in our time:
"O, let America be America again-- The land that never has been yet-- And yet must be--the land where every man is free. Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--Let it be that great strong land of love."
Featuring music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, William Grant Still, Ernest Bloch, Margaret Bonds, Leonard Bernstein, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, Nina Simone, Joe Phillips, Angelica Negron, Dan Visconti, David Sanford, and others.

Lara Downes


Skype: LaraD88

Comments by email:

1) Looking forward to hearing and possibly presenting  John Malveaux
www.musicuntold.com

2) Thank you! Have a beautiful holiday.  Best  L  [Lara Downes]

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