Reginald Mobley and Baptiste Trotignon at the BBC Proms
February 17, 2024, 4:00 pm
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Reginald Mobley and Baptiste Trotignon (Photos: Richard Dumas)
In their program for last summer’s BBC Proms, Reginald Mobley and Baptiste Trotignon illuminate the relationship between two pillars of Black music: gospel and classical. Hearing Trotignon’s jazzy arrangements of songs like Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen and There is a balm in Gilead in Mobley’s individualistic countertenor alongside Florence Price’s Because fulfills Antonín Dvořák’s prophecy that African American folksong would shape the future of classical music in America.
On this special episode during Black History Month, thanks to WFMT’s association with the European Broadcasting Union, we present their Proms performance and an interview with Reginald Mobley.
Playlist
Trad., arr. Baptiste Trotignon My Lord, what a mornin’ Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen A great camp meetin’
Florence Price (1887–1953) Because (pubd. 2015)
Trad., arr. Harry T. Burleigh/Trotignon By an’ by/There is a balm in Gilead
Harry T. Burleigh (1866–1949) Jean
Florence Price Resignation (pubd. 2015)
Trad., arr. Patrick Dupré Quigley Steal away
Trad., arr. Trotignon Save me, Lord, save me
Florence Price Sunset (pubd. 2015)
Trad., arr. Trotignon Deep river I got a robe
Hoagy Carmichael arr. Trotignon Georgia On My Mind
Trad., arr. Baptiste Trotignon Were you there Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Bright sparkles in the churchyard
Duke Ellington In My Solitude
Reginald Mobley, counter-tenor
Baptiste Trotignon, piano
