Programs · Episode
Music from the Modern World
Program: Lift Every Voice
Aired: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 @ 7:00 pm
Hosted by Joshua Hood
Explore works by Duke Ellington, Billy Childs, Bill Banfield and many more.
Pictured: Duke Ellington.
Heard on this Episode:
Duke Ellington (1976): Three Black Kings
I. King of Magi
Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Detroit Symphony
Billy Childs, piano (1995): The Distant Land
II. A Mother To Her First-Born
Alan Balter, conductor
Akron Symphony
Carmen Lundy, vocal
Billy Childs piano
Nana Yaw Asiedu African Percussion
Thomas Kelley, African Percussion
John Work II & Frederick Work, arr.by Stephen Murphy: “Wade in the Water”
Dr. Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor
The Aeolians
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson (1996): Generations: Sinfonietta No.2 for Strings
I. Misterioso-Allegro
II. Alla Sarabande
III. All Burletta
Paul Freeman, conductor
Chicago Sinfonietta
Undine Smith Moore (1977): “We Shall Walk Through The Valley”
Philip Brunelle: VocalEssence
Ensemble Singers
William Banfield (1995): Dance Like the Wind
I. She’s Making Coffee
II. Island Sway
Suite for Woodwind Quintet
Michele Frisch, flute
Kathy Robinson, oboe
Joseph Longo,clarinet
Paul Straka, french horn
Kevin Coria, bassoon
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1893): Nonet, Opus 2 1st mvt.
The Coleridge Ensemble
Playlist
7 pm | |
| Lift Every Voice (Program 2) | |
| Duke Ellington · Three Black Kings (i. King of the Magi) Detroit Symphony Orchestra Detroit Symphony Orch estr 1003 "Ellington and the Modern Masters" | |
| Billy Childs · "The Distant Land": II. A Mother to Her First-Born; Interlude Akron Symphony Orchestra Carmen Lundy, vocal; Billy Childs, piano; Nana Yaw Asiedu, African Percussion, vocal; Thomas A. Kelley, African percussion Telarc 80409 "American Voices - The African American Composers' Project" | |
| John Work II & Frederick Work · "Wade in the Water" (arr. Stephen Murphy) The Aeolians of Oakwood University The Aeolians of Oakwo od U B01ICX 3WBO "Aeolianology - a cappella, vol. 2" | |
| Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson · Generations: Sinfonietta No. 2 for Strings (1996) (i. Misterioso) Chicago Sinfonietta Cedille Records 066 "African Heritage Symphonic Series, vol. 3" | |
| Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson · Generations: Sinfonietta No. 2 for Strings (1996) (ii. Alla sarabande) Chicago Sinfonietta Cedille Records 066 "African Heritage Symphonic Series, vol. 3" | |
| Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson · Generations: Sinfonietta No. 2 for Strings (1996) (iii. Alla Burletta) Chicago Sinfonietta Cedille Records 066 "African Heritage Symphonic Series, vol. 3" | |
| Undine Moore Smith · "We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace" VocalEssence Ensemble Singers Clarion 906 "Dance Like the Wind - Music of Today's Black Composers" | |
| William Banfield · She's Making Coffee, from Dance Like the Wind Woodwind Quintet Clarion 906 "Dance Like the Wind - Music of Today's Black Composers" | |
| William Banfield · Island Sway, from Dance Like the Wind Woodwind Quintet Clarion 906 "Dance Like the Wind - Music of Today's Black Composers" | |
| Samuel Coleridge-Taylor · Nonet in f, Op. 2 (i. Allegro moderato) The Coleridge Ensemble AFKA 543 "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Chamber Music" | |