Lara Downes: My Life in Music

The trailblazing performer, recording artist, activist, arts advocate, and KDFC, KUSC, and NPR host Lara Downes introduces a very personal playlist. Throughout her unique career, the forward-looking pianist has introduced audiences to diverse composers who have been ignored or disenfranchised. The program will include selections from her newest album Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered.

Listen to Lara Downes: My Life in Music.

Playlist

Florence Price: Clouds
Price: Fantasie Nègre No. 4 in B Minor
Florence Price Piano Discoveries
Flipside Music

Scott Joplin: The Chrysanthemum
Joplin: Bethena
Joplin arr. Jeremy Siskind: A Picture of Her Face
with Will Liverman, baritone
Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered
Rising Sun Music RS-16

Clara Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 11
II. Andante – Allegro passionato
III. Moderato
For Love of You
Flipside Music FL0013

Nkeiru Okoye: When Young Spring Comes
New Day Begun
Rising Sun Records 705630

Libby Larsen: Blue Piece
with Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Holes in the Sky
Portrait 19075920792

Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
Bonds: “The Bells” from Spiritual Suite for Piano
Some of These Days
Flipside Music FL0014

Bonds: “Valley of the Bones” from Spiritual Suite for Piano
LIGHT: Migration Music Part 1
Rising Sun Records 737428

Amy Beach: From Blackbird Hills, Op. 83
America Again
Dorian Sono Luminus DSL-92207

Ann Ronell arr. Hyungin Choi: Willow Weep for Me
Holes in the Sky
Portrait 19075920792

Leonard Bernstein arr. Luke Russell: “Big Stuff” from Fancy Free
For Lenny, Episode 3
Sony 84284011271

Meredith Monk: Ellis Island
with Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Holes in the Sky
Portrait 19075920792

Bonds: What My Lips Have Kissed
with Nicole Cabell, soprano
Phenomenal Women
Rising Sun Records RS-003D

Georgia Stitt: What My Lips Have Kissed
Holes in the Sky
Portrait 19075920792

Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Martin West, conductor
For Love of You
Flipside Music FL0013