Monday, March 31, 2014

This Week in Exploring Music: Portraits in Black, Brown and Beige Part 1, the first of a two part series in celebration of African-American composers and performers.


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Dominique-René de Lerma forwards this Weekly Playlist for Exploring Music With Bill McLaughlin on The WFMT Radio Network from March 31-April 4, 2014:
Trad.: Egwabo/Welcome (Ghana) (excerpts)
Arc 1950
:56, :42
Trad.: “Lord, How Come Me Here?”
Marian Anderson, contralto; Franz Rupp, piano
RCA 61960
2:12
Trad: “In that New Jerusalem”
Smithsonian Folkways 2657
2:00
Trad.: “I Been in de Storm So Long”
Marian Anderson, contralto
RCA 61960
3:10
Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Quartet No. 2 In B Flat Major, I & II
Apollon Quartet
Avenida 276011
11:05
Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Adagio fr. Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major
Encore Chamber Orchestra/Hege; Rachel Barton, v.
Cedille 035
5:52
Trad.: “Move Daniel” & “Pharaoh’s Host Got Lost”
McIntosh County Singers
Smithsonian Folkways 4344
3:49, 1:38
Trad.: “I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon”
Marian Anderson, contralto; Rupp, p.
RCA 61960
2:37
Trad.: Deep River
Tuskegee Institute Choir
Westminster 8154
3:23
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Trad.: “Every Time I Feel the Spirit”
Leadbelly, voc.
Smithsonian Folkways 40194
3:27
Trad./Burleigh: “Go Down Moses”
Harry T. Burleigh, baritone
Arch 1005
2:06
Trad.: “Trouble”
Michel Larue, voc
Smithsonian Folkways 05252
1:54
Joseph White: Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor
Encore Chamber Orchestra/Hege; Rachel Barton, v.
Cedille 35
21:36
Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Boston Pops Orchestra/Fiedler
Universal Classics B0002916-02
3:20
Scott Joplin: Ragtime Dance
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Universal Classics B0002916-02
2:42
Scott Joplin: Solace – A Mexican Serenade
Morton Gunnar Larsen, f.
Universal Classics B0002916-02
7:17
Trad.: La Bella Cubana
Juan Carlos Valdivia, v.; Leonor Martínez, p.
Music Trends Records B001Q21MT4
5:19; 1:39

Trad.: “Salangadou”
Michel Larue, voc.
Smithsonian Folkways 05252
:56
Trad.: “Gwine to Alabamy”
Michel Larue, voc.
Smithsonian Folkways 05252
1:37
Trad.: “A City Called Heaven”
Terence Blanchard, p.; Jubilant Sykes, bar.
Sony 63294
4:22
Foster: “Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair”
Thomas Hampson; Michael Parloff, fl.
EMI 41645
1:52
Foster: Old Folks at Home & My Old Kentucky Home
Jay Ungar/Matt Glaser/Evan Stover/Molly Mason/Tony Trischka
EMI 54621
4:56
James A. Bland: “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny”
Louis Armstrong & the Mills Brothers
Giants of Jazz
3:05
Sydney Lambert: Rescue Polka Mazurka
Center for Black Music Research
3:16
Scott Joplin: Bethena (A Concert Waltz)
Eric Rogers, p.
Universal CL (DG) B0002916-02
5:24
Joplin: Treemonisha (excerpts)
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and Singers
New World 80720
19:33
Trad.: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
Apollo Jubilee Quartette
Arch 1005
2:44
Trad.: “Salangadou” (excerpt)
Eartha Kitt
1:22
V
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.
CRI 629
18:19
William Grant Still: Symphony #1, Afro-American
Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Järvi
Chandos 9154
12:43, 11:25
Noble Sissle: Great Camp Meetin’ Day
Ford Dabney’s Band
Arch 1005
2:39

Trad.: “I Just Come from the Fountain”
Michel Larue, voc.
Smithsonian Folkways 5252
1:08
 
Trad: “Let Us Break Bread Together”
Terence Blanchard, p.; Jubilant Sykes, bar.
Sony 63294
2:44
 
Trad.: “Joe Hill”
Paul Robeson, bass
Smithsonian Folkways 40026
3:05
 
James Reese Europe: Castle House Rag
Center for Black Music Research, Chicago
3:16
 
Florence Price: Concerto in One Movement
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble/Leslie B. Dunner,Karen Walwyn, p.
Albany 1295
18:29
 
Florence Price: Symphony in E Minor, III & IV
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble/Leslie B. Dunner
9:13
 
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Lamentations for solo cello
Tahirah Whittington, vc.
Cedille 87
2:35
 
Antonín Dvorák, arr. Tatum: Humoresque
Art Tatum, p.
4:46
 
I Got You (I Feel Good)
James Brown
2:49
 
Diggin' on James Brown
Tower of Power
4:40

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