CBMR.org: 'Two New CDs in the Recorded Music of the African Diaspora Series,' Violin Music & Florence Price

[TOP: Tami Lee Hughes; Legacy: Violin Music of African American Composers; Albany Records TROY1293 (2011) Cover Art: “Initially Yours” by Alicia McDaniel, http://www.artisticheart.com/ BOTTOM: Center for Black Music Research]

The CBMR Newsletter is distributed by email to members of the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), http://www.colum.edu/cbmr, at Columbia College Chicago. AfriClassical presents an excerpt from the August 2011 Newsletter:

Announcing Two New CDs in the Recorded Music of the African Diaspora Series

Legacy: Violin Music by African-American Composers

Volume 2 (TROY1293), available now.

Tami Lee Hughes, violin

Ellen Bottorff, piano

Francis Johnson, Bingham’s Cotillion (1820)

George Morrison, Five Violin Solos (1947)

David N. Baker, Jazz Suite (1979)

Ozie C. Cargile II, Mixed Feelings (2000)

Chad “Sir Wick” Hughes, S.L.I.C.E. (2009)

Florence B. Price Orchestral Music

Volume 3 (TROY1295) available Fall 2011.

Listen to excerpts at the CBMR website

New Black Music Repertory Ensemble

Leslie B. Dunner, conductor

Karen Walwyn, piano

Concerto in One Movement (1934)

Symphony in E Minor (1932)

Music by Mary D. Watkins and Olly W. Wilson

Volume 1 (TROY)1200, issued Summer 2010 and still available.

New Black Music Repertory Ensemble

Kirk Smith, conductor

Leslie B. Dunner, conductor

Bonita Hyman, mezzo soprano

Rodrick Dixon, tenor

Donnie Ray Albert, baritone

Mary D. Watkins, Five Movements in Color (1993)

Olly W. Wilson, Of Visions and Truth A Song Cycle (1991)

The Recorded Music of the African Diaspora series is coproduced by the Center for Black Music Research and Albany Records. The recordings are available through albanyrecords.com and amazon.com. [Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works Lists by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com]

TheClassicalReview.com: 'Tami Lee Hughes celebrates violin music by African-American composers on Albany Records'

[Tami Lee Hughes; Legacy: Violin Music of African American Composers; Albany Records (2011)]

This is the first of two CDs of works of composers of African descent from The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) and Albany Records. A disc of symphonic works of Florence B. Smith Price is due to be released next month:

TheClassicalReview.com
July 29, 2011
By Michael Quinn
“Violinist Tami Lee Hughes has recorded an album of works for solo violin and violin-and-piano duo by African-American composers for Albany Records. The program spans almost 200 years, with the earliest work featured, Bingham’s Cotillion, composed in 1820 by Francis Johnson. The most recent is Chad ‘Sir Wick’ Hughes’ S.L.I.C.E., which dates from 2009.

Other works include George Morrison’s set of Five Violin Solos from 1947; David Baker’s 1979 Jazz Suite; and Ozie Cargile’s Mixed Feelings, which was composed in 2000. Hughes is joined for some of the works by pianist Ellen Bottorff. [Francis B. Johnson (1792-1844) and Florence B. Smith Price (1887-1953) are profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com]