Smith, Hale

Adderley & Holliday: Piano Duo Project / works by White, Still, Smith, Adderley

1 CD / Albany Records / 2012-11-13

Works: Dolores White: Rock-a-My-Soul, for 2 pianos; Rhythm of the Claves, for 2 pianos; William Grant Still: Summerland, for piano; Kaintuck, poem for piano & orchestra; Scherzo, for orchestra or band (arr....
Performers: Adderley, Meisha; Holliday, Stacey
Conductors:
Ensemble: Adderley & Holliday Piano Duo

Meisha Adderley and Stacey Holliday present a program of music for piano duo by black composers. Spanning a time frame of music written in 1935...continue...
Recording information: University of South Carolina School of Music Recital Ha (05/2011)....continue...

Deep River: Music for Violin and Piano by Composers of African Descent / Merwin Siu, violin; Phoenix Park-Kim, piano

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2012-04-10

Works: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River, for piano (Negro Melodies), Op. 59/10; R. Nathaniel Dett: Cinnamon Grove, suite for piano; Howard Swanson: Nocturne for violin & piano; Hale Smith: Epicedial Vari...
Performers: Park-Kim, Phoenix; Siu, Merwin

This recording offers a program of music by black composers for piano and violin. Violinist Merwin Siu has appeared with the Toledo Symphony, the New...continue...
Recording information: Studio D, Summitville, IN (2006-2010)....continue...

Witness - Lombardo, Gardner, et al / Freeman, Czech NSO

1 CD / Albany Records / 2006-09-01

Works: Robert Lombardo: Aria Variata, song; James Gardner: Scene for a Diva!, for soprano & orchestra; David Baker: Witness; Hale Smith: Four Negro Spirituals, for soprano & orchestra
Performers: Bentley, Julia; Johnson, Mary Jane; Toppin, Louise
Conductors: Feeman, Paul

The versatile and enterprising Paul Freeman, Julia Bentley, Mary Jane Johnson and Louise Toppin here introduce four works for soprano voice and orchestra, pieces which...continue...

Angel Voices - Collection for Christmas / Western Wind

1 CD / Western Wind / 2006-04-01

Works: William Billings: Boston; Bethlehem; Christmas Traditional: What Child Is This? (Greensleeves); The Cherry Tree Carol; If Anybody Ask You (Spiritual); Anonymous: I Believe This Is Jesus; Includemur n...
Performers: Arnold, Johanna; Bennett, Lawrence; De Ruitaer, Albert; Karpienia, Joseph; Lee, William Lyon; Levine, Elliot Z.; Rowe, Cheryl Bensman; Rowell, Mary L.; Western Wind; Zukof, William
Conductors:
Ensemble: Western Wind

An inspiring collection of medieval, renaissance, early American, and contemporary music celebrating the holiday - a treasury of familiar and rare holiday musical treats!...continue...
Personnel: Johanna Arnold (soprano); Lawrence Bennet, William Lyon Lee (tenor); William Zukof (countertenor); Albert De Ruiter (bass voice); Mary L. Rowell (violin).

Recording information: Rutg...continue...

American Classics - Dreamer -A Portrait of Langston Hughes

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-09-01

Works: Langston Hughes: My People (poem); The Weary Blues (poem); Negro (poem); Evil (poem); Sunday Morning Prophecy (poem); Madam and the Census Taker (poem); Sylvester's Dying Bed (poem); Still Here (poem...
Performers: Corley, Maria; Santos, Erik; Taylor, Darryl

Langston Hughes poetry lends itself so readily to musical setting that the composer Elite Siegmeister once declared him the "most musical poet of the twentieth...continue...

African Heritage Symphonic Series Vol II / Freeman, et al

1 CD / Cedille / 2001-01-01

Works: Ulysses Kay: Theater Set, orchestral suite; George Walker: Lyric for strings; Roque Cordero: Miniatures (8) for Small Orchestra; Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call; Epitaph for a Man Who Dr...
Conductors: Feeman, Paul

Dark Fires - 20th Century Music for Piano / Karen Walwyn

1 CD / Albany Records / 1997-10-01

Works: Dolores White: Toccata for piano; Lettie Beckon Alston: Rhapsodies for piano; Tania León: Rituál, for piano; Hale Smith: Evocation; Roget Dickerson: Sonatina for piano; Jeffrey Mumford: Fra...
Performers: Walwyn, Karen

"This happens to be a collection of music by composers of African extraction, but I didn't realize it until after several listens. There is no...continue...

Winds of Change - American Music for Wind Ensemble

1 CD / New World / 1997-08-01

Works: Vincent Persichetti: Pageant for band, Op 59; Hale Smith: Expansions for wind ensemble; Henry Brant: Verticals Ascending for wind ensemble; Ross Lee Finney: Concerto for alto saxophone & wind orchest...
Performers: Hemke, Frederick L.
Conductors: Paynter, John
Ensemble: Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble