VocalEssence
Dance Like the Wind:
Music of Today's Black Composers

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New Release in 2004!

Dance Like the Wind: Music of Today's Black Composers
Thought-provoking and moving music by eight modern composers spans the range of expression from solo cello to chorus, from jazz ensemble to woodwind quintet.

Anthony Elliott, cello; Yolanda Williams, Dan Dressen, Maria Jette, soloists; VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus with orchestra; Philip Brunelle, Artistic Director.

Track Listing:

 1. Mother to Son : Undine Smith Moore (1955) - [ 2:41 ]
2. We Shall Walk Through the Valley (0:45) : Undine Smith Moore (1977) - [ 2:54 ]

from Lamentations: Black Folk Song Suite : Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1973) - [ 7:13 ]
3. II Song Form
4. IV Perpetual Motion

5. An Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct (3:00) : Joseph Jennings (1995) - [ 9:49 ]

from Dance Like the Wind : William Banfield (1995) - [ 9:25 ]
6. She’s Making Coffee (Act A, scene 4)
7. All Four in the Car (Act B, scene 5)
8. Dance Like the Wind (Island Sway) (Act B, scene 6a)

9. Tambourines to Glory (0:30) : Undine Smith Moore (1973) - [ 1:03 ]

10. My Soul Hath Found Refuge in Thee (Psalm 91) (1:00) : Evelyn Simpson-Curenton (1996) - [ 4:54 ]

11. Nocturne : Adolphus Hailstork (1984) - [ 6:59 ]

from Piece for String Orchestra : Billy Childs (1989)
12. II Slow
13. III Fast

Images, Shadows and Dreams: Five Vignettes : David Baker (1993)
14. I Rents Due Monday
15. II The Nonagenarian
16. III If There Be Sorrow
17. IV The Rebel
18. V Let Me Tell You How to Meet the Day

Total Timing: 75:26