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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brownlee, Lawrence (Singer)
Miller, Kevin J. (Instrumentalist)
Sneed, Damien
Evans, Jeremiah, 1978-
Spencer, Brandon J., 1992-
Bonds, Margaret
Thompson, Joel, 1988-
Barnes, Jasmine, 1991-
Okpebholo, Shawn E., 1981-
Owens, Robert, 1925-2017
Language:English
Published: [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.