This weekend on Introductions, we feature a new double CD from Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. It’s called A Celebration of Black Composers, and was released during Black History Month 2020.
We hear from their full orchestras, a steel pan orchestra, and the Jazz Orchestra jamming with the flagship Symphony Orchestra on some Duke Ellington – 123 musicians in total!
Video:Address for Orchestra by George Walker, performed by the CYSO Symphony Orchestra conducted by Allen Tinkham.
Video:Grand Slam Jam by Duke Ellington, performed by members of the CYSO Jazz Orchestra and the CYSO Symphony Orchestra conducted by Allen Tinkham.
Playlist
Winged Creatures, by Michael Abels
(excerpt)
Demarre McGill, flute
Anthony McGill, clarinet
CYSO Symphony Orchestra
Allen Tinkham, conductor Commissioned and recorded by Cedille Records, originally released on CDR-90000187.
Venus & Serena, by Slide Hampton
(excerpt)
CYSO Jazz Orchestra
Pharez Whitted, conductor
Lift Every Voice and Sing, by James Weldon Johnson & John Rosamund Johnson
(excerpt)
CYSO Kaiso Steel Orchestra
Malika Green, conductor
Address for Orchestra, by George Walker
I. Poco adagio – molto più mosso
CYSO Symphony Orchestra
Allen Tinkham, conductor
Symphony No. 1, by Florence Price
III. Juba Dance
CYSO Concert Orchestra
Michael Mascari, conductor
Grand Slam Jam, by Duke Ellington
(arr. Luther Henderson, ed. Maurice Peress)
CYSO Jazz Orchestra members
CYSO Symphony Orchestra
Allen Tinkham, conductor
This weekend on Introductions, we feature a new double CD from Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. It’s called A Celebration of Black Composers, and was released during Black History Month 2020.