Natalie Hinderas Plays Music by Black Composers

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Natalie Hinderas - piano

Album statement:

Our black composers need no apology, no defense, no explanation, no patronising.

They need performance. They need to be programmed beside their fellow white composers from Bach to Berio. Hale Smith has said, "Place our music not on all-black programs. We can do that for ourselves, for the benefit of our own people. Place our work on programs with Beethoven, Mozart, Schoenberg, Copland and the current avant-gardists. We don't even have to be called black. When we stand for our bows, that fact will become clear when it should: After the work has made its own impact."

Tracklisting:


Side 1

1. R. Nathaniel Dett - In the Bottoms {18:24}
a. Prelude, b. His Song, c. Honey, d. Barcarolle, e. Dance (Juba)

2. Thomas H. Kerr, Jr. - Easter Monday Swagger {4:30}

Side 2

1. William Grant Still - Three Visions {9:47}
1. Dark Horsemen, 2. Summerland, 3. Radiant Pinnacle

2. John W. Work - Scuppernong {7:36}

Side 3

1. George Walker - Sonata No. 1 {15:28}

2. Arthur Cunningham - Engrams' {5:58}

Side 4

1. Stephen A. Chambers - Sound-Gone {10:38}

2. Hale Smith - Evocation {3:08}

3. Olly Wilson - Piano Piece for Piano and Electronic Sounds {10:42}


via A CLOSET OF CURIOSITIES

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