Rising / Lawrence Brownlee.
For this album, "Brownlee has commissioned six of today's leading African-American composers - Damien Sneed, Brandon Spencer, Jasmine Barnes, Joel Thompson, and Shawn E. Okpebholo - to set poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to song, including poems by... Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, James Weldon J...
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Language: | English |
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[New York] :
Warner Classics,
[2023]
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Physical Description: | 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in. |
Format: | CD Audio |
Contents:
- Beauty that is never old ; The gift to sing ; To America / Damien Sneed
- April song ; Lost illusions ; Southern mansion / Jeremiah Evans
- I know my soul ; Dance of love / Brandon Spencer
- Songs of the seasons / Margaret Bonds
- Supplication ; Compensation ; My people / Joel Thompson
- Peace ; Invocation / Jasmine Barnes
- Romance / Shawn Ehireime Okpebholo
- Desire song cycle ; Silver rain cycle / Robert Owens.