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Portraits in Black, Brown, & Beige, Part I

July 28, 2013, 7:00 pm

This two-week celebration, named in honor of Duke Ellington’s jazz symphony, will explore 400 years of African-American composers and performers. Starting with Call and Response, and Shouts, from the first Africans to arrive on this continent, Bill will introduce us to art songs, symphonies, and traditional spirituals that have become a large part our American musical identity.

Listen to the past two weeks of Exploring Music episodes

Playlist

Episode 1

Traditional: Egwabo/Welcome (Ghana) (excerpts)
:56, :42

Traditional: “Lord, How Come Me Here?”
Marian Anderson, contralto; Franz Rupp, piano
Marian Anderson with Franz Rupp – Spirituals
RCA 61960
2:12

Traditional: “In that New Jerusalem”
The Straight Gospel Singers
Music from the South
Smithsonian Folkways 2657
2:00

Traditional: “I Been in de Storm So Long”
Marian Anderson, contralto
Marian Anderson with Franz Rupp – Spirituals
RCA 61960
3:10

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Quartet No. 2 In B Flat Major, I & II
Apollon Quartet
Saint-George: Six String Quartets, Op.14
Avenida 276011
11:05

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Adagio fr. Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major
Encore Chamber Orchestra/Hege; Rachel Barton, v.
Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th & 19th Centuries
Cedille 035
5:52

Traditional: “Move Daniel” & “Pharaoh’s Host Got Lost”
McIntosh County Singers
The McIntosh County Shouters
Smithsonian Folkways 4344
3:49, 1:38

Traditional: “I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon”
Marian Anderson, contralto; Rupp, p.
Marian Anderson with Franz Rupp – Spirituals
RCA 61960
2:37

Traditional: Deep River
Tuskegee Institute Choir
Spirituals
Westminster 8154
3:23

Episode 2

Traditional: “Every Time I Feel the Spirit”
Leadbelly, voc
Calssic African American Gospel
Smithsonian Folkways 40194
3:27

Trad./Burleigh: “Go Down Moses”
Harry T. Burleigh, baritone
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891-1922
Arch 1005
2:06

Traditional: “Trouble”
Michel Larue, voc
Songs of The American Negro Slaves
Smithsonian Folkways 05252
1:54

Joseph White: Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor
Encore Chamber Orchestra/Hege; Rachel Barton, v.
Alla Zingarese
Cedille 35
21:36

Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Boston Pops Orchestra/Fiedler
Rags & Ragtime
Universal Classics B0002916-02
3:20

Scott Joplin: Ragtime Dance
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Rags & Ragtime
Universal Classics B0002916-02
2:42

Scott Joplin: Solace – A Mexican Serenade
Morton Gunnar Larsen, f.
Rags & Ragtime
Universal Classics B0002916-02
7:17

Traditional: La Bella Cubana
Juan Carlos Valdivia, v.; Leonor Martínez, p.
La Bella Cubana (Habanera)
Music Trends Records B001Q21MT4
5:19; 1:39

Episode 3

Traditional: “Salangadou”
Michel Larue, voc.
Songs of The American Negro Slaves
Smithsonian Folkways 05252
:56

Traditional: “Gwine to Alabamy”
Michel Larue, voc.
Songs of The American Negro Slaves
Smithsonian Folkways 05252
1:37

Traditional: “A City Called Heaven”
Terence Blanchard, p.; Jubilant Sykes, bar.
Jubilant
Sony 63294
4:22

Foster: “Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair”
Thomas Hampson; Michael Parloff, fl.
Song of America
EMI 41645
1:52

Foster: Old Folks at Home & My Old Kentucky Home
Jay Ungar/Matt Glaser/Evan Stover/Molly Mason/Tony Trischka
American Dreamer – Songs of Stephen Foster
EMI 54621
4:56

James A. Bland: “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny”
Louis Armstrong & the Mills Brothers
Louis Armstrong Historic Collection
Black label
3:05

Sydney Lambert: Rescue Polka Mazurka
The Black Music Repertory Ensemble
Black Music: The Written Tradition
Center for Black Music Research
3:16

Scott Joplin: Bethena (A Concert Waltz)
Eric Rogers, p.
Great Scott… The Music of Scott Joplin Played By Eric Rogers
London Records SPC 21105
5:24

Joplin: Treemonisha (excerpts)
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and Singers
Treemonisha
New World 80720
19:33

Traditional: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
Apollo Jubilee Quartette
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891-1922
Arch 1005
2:44

Traditional: “Salangadou” (excerpt)
Eartha Kitt
That Bad Eatha Plus
Universe italy
1:22

Episode 4

James S. Scott: Frog Legs Rag
Center for Black Music Research
www.colum.edu/CBMR/
3:47

R. Nathaniel Dett: In the Bottoms
I. Prelude
II. His Song
III. Honey
IV. Barcarolle
V. Dance
Natalie Hinderas, p.
Piano Music By African American Composers
CRI 629
18:19

William Grant Still: Symphony #1, Afro-American
Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Järvi
Still: Symphony No. 1 Ellington: The River
Chandos 9154
12:43, 11:25

Noble Sissle: Great Camp Meetin’ Day
Ford Dabney’s Band
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891-1922
Arch 1005
2:39

Episode 5

Traditional: “I Just Come from the Fountain”

Michel Larue, voc.

Songs of The American Negro Slaves

Smithsonian Folkways 5252