Songs from Chicago
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Kuang-Hao Huang, Piano
Cedille Records
Cedille Records
Cedille Records:
We continue our salute to Black History Month this week with a
song/text that’s particularly appropriate to the occasion: Chicago
composer Margaret Allison Bonds’
(1913–1972) setting of the Langston Hughes poem “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers.” The performance is from the recent Cedille release Songs from Chicago, featuring superstar baritone Thomas Hampson and noted Chicago pianist Kuang-Hao Huang
(our CD of the Week, 25% OFF this week only). The five Chicago
composers presented include two African-American women who thrived in
the first half of the 20th century — Bonds and her mentor, Florence Beatrice Price — and three different composers’ settings of Langston Hughes texts (John Alden Carpenter in addition to Bonds and Price).
For more tracks like this, please check out our Black Composers on Cedille playlist on Spotify.
Happy Listening,
James Ginsburg
President
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