PERFORMANCES

  • MUSIC AMONGST FRIENDS
    Calvary Baptist Church
    123 W. 57th Street
    New York, NY
    February 4, 2001
    2:00 PM

    Shelby Banks, soprano
    Shani Philpotts, mezzo-soprano
    Shawn Robinson, tenor
    Tyrone Roberson, bass-baritone

    Including spirituals by Johnson, Carter, and Burleigh, and art songs by Marie Busch, Margaret Bonds, John Work, Duke Ellington, and selections from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
    Admission is free

  • AFROCENTRIC VOICES IN SACRED MUSIC
    Ascension Lutheran Church
    Landover Hills, Maryland
    March 18, 2001
    4:00 PM

    Randye Jones, soprano
    David Simmons, piano, organ

    Includes works by Julia Perry, R. Nathaniel Dett, John Carter, H. T. Burleigh, Hall Johnson, William Lawence, Edward Boatner
    Free-will offering to aid Ascension's Organ Fund.

    PUBLICATIONS

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    PASSIONALE, by Harry T. Burleigh
    A song cycle on poetry by James Weldon Johnson
    Published by Classical Vocal Reprints

    WILLIAM GRANT STILL: AN ART SONG COLLECTION
    A collection of ten songs and spirituals unavailable in other anthologies.
    Published by William Grant Still Music Publishing

    RECORDINGS

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    LOVE REJOICES: SONGS OF H. LESLIE ADAMS
    22 songs by H. Leslie Adams peformed by Darryl Taylor, tenor
    with Robin Guy, piano
    Albany Records, Troy 428


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    Maintained by Darryl Taylor

     

     

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