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Bound for the promised land : songs and words of equality and freedom.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 29406
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- Format:
- Conference/Event
- Sound recording
- Conference Name:
- Atlanta Music Festival (2016 : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors.
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
- Genre:
- speeches (documents)
- excerpts.
- Excerpts.
- Live sound recordings.
- Speeches.
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (1:08:18) ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Songs and words of equality and freedom
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : Albany Records, [2019]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- rdatr
- 1.4 m/s
- audio file
- CD audio
- Contents:
- Lift every voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson (Atlanta Music Festival Children's Choir ; Ben Leaptrott, piano ; Steven Darsey, conductor) (3:28)
- Art translates, transcends, and transforms / (Dwight Andrews, speaker) (4:55)
- Frederick Douglass (Act II, scene 3) / Dorothy Rudd Moore (Timothy Miller, tenor ; Meridian Chorale & Orchestra ; Steven Darsey, conductor) (6:10)
- 50th anniversary of the Selma March and A more perfect union speeches (excerpts) / Barack Obama (Robert M. Franklin, speaker) (1:25)
- Notes on the decline of outrage (excerpt) / James Dickey (Taylor Branch, speaker) (1:10)
- Wade in the water / traditional ; arr. Kevin P. Johnson (Julia Dennis, soprano ; Spelman College Glee Club ; Kevin P. Johnson, piano ; B.E. Boykin, conductor) (3:20)
- Notes on the decline of outrage (excerpt) / James Dickey (Taylor Branch, speaker) (:55)
- A more perfect union (excerpt) / Barack Obama (Robert M. Franklin, speaker) (:47)
- Come Sunday / Duke Ellington (Jessye Norman, soprano ; Damien Sneed, piano) (3:21)
- Gospel train / traditional ; arr. Hall Johnson (Jessye Norman, soprano ; Damien Sneed, piano) (1:39)
- 50th anniverary of the Selma march (excerpt) / Barack Obama (Robert M. Franklin, speaker) (1:31)
- My soul's been anchored / traditional ; arr. Moses Hogan (Morehouse College Glee Club ; David Morrow, conductor) (3:30)
- Statement on the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (excerpt) / Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Taylor Branch, speaker) (1:33)
- Meditations from grace / T.J. Anderson (Vega Quartet (Elizabeth Fayette, Jessica Shuang Wu, violins ; Yinzi Kong, viola ; Guang Wang, cello)) (5:08)
- Notes on the decline of outrage (excerpt) / James Dickey (Taylor Branch, speaker) (:40)
- Essays (excerpt) / Langston Hughes (Robert M. Franklin, speaker) (:33)
- Prophets for a new day (excerpt) / Margaret Walker (Taylor Branch, speaker) (1:00)
- Cantata. Toccata : Ride on King Jesus / John Carter (Timothy Miller, tenor ; Brent Runnels, piano) (2:48)
- Between black and white (excerpt) / Henry Hugh Proctor (Robert M. Franklin, speaker) (1:12)
- Heaven / Duke Ellington (Jessye Norman, soprano ; Damien Sneed, piano) (2:50)
- He's got the whole world in his hand / traditional ; arr. Margaret Bonds (Jessye Norman, soprano ; Damien Sneed, piano) (2:31)
- Frederick Douglass (Finale of Act III, scene 3) / Dorothy Rudd Moore (Megan Brunning, Cynthia Shepherd, Arietha Lockhart, sopranos ; Brent Davis, baritone ; Timothy Miller, tenor ; Meridian Chorale & Orchestra ; Steven Darsey, conductor) (5:04)
- Voting rights speech to Congress, March 15, 1965 (excerpt) / Lyndon B. Johnson (Taylor Branch, speaker) (1:12)
- 50th anniversary of the Selma March (excerpt) / Barack Obama (Robert M. Franklin, speaker) (1:42)
- Bound for the promised land / traditional ; arr. Adophus Hailstork (Wanda Yang Temko, soprano ; Timothy Miller, tenor ; Spelman & Morehouse College Glee Clubs ; Chancel Choir of First Congregational Church ; Meridian Chorale & Orchestra ; Steven Darsey, conductor) (8:14).
- Participant:
- Various performers.
- Jessye Norman, featured guest soloist; Taylor Branch, Robert Franklin, narrators; Spellman and Morehouse College Glee Clubs; other performers.
- Notes:
- Spirituals and music by African-American composers, interspersed with poetry and fragments of speeches.
- Title from disc label.
- "Atlanta Music Festival."
- Recorded in performance 2016 November 16 12:10 PM Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta.
- Recorded in performance 2016 November 18 7:00 PM Glenn Memorial Auditorium, Emory University, Atlanta.
- Program notes and selected texts and performer biographies in English in container.
- OCLC:
- 1139889344
- Publisher Number:
- 034061179825
- TROY1798 Albany Records
- 1798 Albany Records
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