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Voyage
Program: Lift Every Voice
Aired: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 @ 7:00 pm
Hosted by Joshua Hood
Set a course to explore music ranging from 1954 to 2015. Hear chamber music with the Imani Winds, choral works by Evelyn Simpson Curenton, a bit of world music, and music about the civil rights era.
Pictured: Imani Winds by Shervin Lainez; courtesy of Arts Management Group.
Heard on the Episode:
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1954): Generations
I.Sonata Allegro
II.Song Form: Largo
III. Rondo: Allegro Furioso
Paul Freeman, conductor
Chicago Sinfonietta
Imani Winds-The Classical Underground, arr Valerie Coleman (2005): “Steal Away”
Concerto For Wind Quintet, written by Valerie Coleman: “Danza”
Patrice Rushen (2001): Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory
Charles Burke, conductor
Detroit Symphony
Civic Orchestra
Evelyn Simpson-Curenton (1996): “My Soul Hath Found Refuge in Thee”
Dan Dressen, tenor
Philip Brunelle, conductor
Chorus of Plymouth Music Singers
Michael Abels (2013): Delights and Dances
Harlem Quartet
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Chicago: Sinfonietta
Playlist
7 pm | |
| Lift Every Voice (Program 3) | |
| Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson · Sinfonietta No. 1 for Strings (i. Sonata Allegro; ii. Song Form: Largo; iii. Rondo: Allegro furioso Chicago Sinfonietta Cedille Records 87 "Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: A Celebration" | |
| Traditional Spiritual · Steal Away (arr. by Valerie Coleman) Imani Winds Koch International 7599 "The Classical Underground" | |
| Valerie Coleman · Concerto for Wind Quintet (iii. Danza) Imani Winds Koch International 7599 "The Classical Underground" | |
| Patrice Rushen · Passion from the Pulpit, from Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King) Detroit Civic Orchestra (Live Jan. 14, 2001) Detroit Civic Orchest ra n/a "Martin Luther King Celebration Concert - Jan. 14, 2001" | |
| Evelyn Simpson-Curenton · "My Soul Hath Found Refuge in Thee" (Psalm 91) VocalEssence Chorus Dan Dressen, tenor Clarion 906 "Dance Like the Wind - Music of Today's Black Composers" | |
| Michael Abels · Delights and Dances, for string quartet & string orchestra (2007) Harlem Quartet; Chicago Sinfonietta Cedille Records 141 "Delights and Dances" | |