Diversity in Vocal Music: BIPOC Composers

Calvary (spiritual) ; In the springtime ; It's me, O Lord (spiritual) / Betty Jackson King -- Watch and pray (spiritual) ; Love let the wind Cry...How I adore Thee ; I am in doubt ; Is there anybody here that loves my Jesus (spiritual) ; Come down angels (spiritual) / Undine Smith Moore -- I'm a poor li'l orphan in this worl' (spiritual) ; Free at last (spiritual) / Julia Perry -- Dry bones (spiritual) ; Lord, I just can't keep from cryin' (spiritual) ; The Negro speaks of rivers ; Three dream portraits: Minstrel man, Dream variation, and I, too ; He's got the whole world in His hand (spiritual) / Margaret Bonds -- My dream ; Song to the Dark Virgin ; Night ; My soul's been anchored in the Lord (spiritual) / Florence Price.

For you there is no song / Leslie Adams -- Early in the mornin' ; A good assassination should be quiet ; Status symbol / David Baker -- Three dream portraits. Minstrel man ; Dream variations ; I, too / Margaret Bonds -- The barrier ; Song without words / Charles Brown -- Death of an old seaman / Cecil Cohen -- Two songs for Julie Ju / Noel Da Costa -- Cassandra's lullaby ; Love / Mark Fax -- A charm at parting ; I loved you / Adolphus C. Hailstork -- Absalom ; Nunc dimittis / Eugene W. Hancock -- Riding to town / Thomas H. Kerr, Jr. -- Compensation / Charles Lloyd, Jr. -- If there be sorrow ; Marrow of my bone / Wendell Logan -- Chanson triste ; Sweet sorrow / Maurice McCall -- Weary blues / Dorothy Rudd Moore -- Love let the wind cry -- How I adore thee / Undine Moore -- Faithful one ; Genius child / Robert Owens -- A child's grace ; Melancholy / Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson -- Night ; Song to the dark virgin / Florence B. Price -- Velvet shoes / Hale Smith -- Grief / William Grant Still -- A death song ; I will lie down in autumn ; The Negro speaks of rivers / Howard Swanson -- Lament ; A red, red rose / George Walker -- Wry fragments / Olly Wilson -- Dancing in the sun ; Soliloquy / John W. Work, Jr.

The art song―a delicate and inspiring blend of mu­sic and poetry―has been performed by singers and pianists and appreciated by audiences around the world for more than two hundred years. While collec­tions of art songs abound, this welcome volume and its accompanying compact discs make readily avail­able the contributions of contemporary African American composers to the popular genre. Including thirty-nine pieces for voice and piano created since 1968 by eighteen artists, ANew Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers navigates a varied musical terrain from classical European tradi­tions to jazz and spirituals. With nearly half of the featured songs composed by women and with others by lesser-known and emerging composers, this im­portant collection offers a diverse, representative sampling of African American art songs and works to secure the places of these songs and artists in the canon of contemporary American music.
Selected by Jeanine Wagner and Margaret R. Simmons, prolific and celebrated performers who have presented recitals throughout the world featur­ing the art songs of African American composers, this dazzling new repertoire of twentieth-century music is cogently framed by a thorough introduction and sub­stantial biographies of each composer.
Amazing grace ; from Nightsongs : Creole girl ; from The Wider view : Love come and gone ; My man / Leslie Adams. -- from Child's world : Seven days ; Birthday song ; Seasons / Mable Bailey. -- Black sheep, black sheep ; Leisure cruise ; Pied beauty / Charles S. Brown. -- from the Giovanni Songs : Three/Quarters time / Wallace McClain Cheatham. -- from Songs of love and justice (On texts of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) : Difficulties ; from Five Dunbar lyrics : The awakening ; Good night ; Create in me / Adolphus Hailstork. -- On consciousness streams : On consciousness streams ; Thou alone canst inspire ; The season of remembrance / Jacqueline B. Hairston. -- from Five songs for soprano and piano : Valentine's day ; How should I your true love know / William H. Henderson. -- from Five art songs for voice and piano : I'll not forget ; We met by chance / Jeraldine Saunders Herbison. -- Theology ; Compensation / Betty Jackson King. -- from Four love songs : Gramercy Park ; Union square / William Foster McDaniel. -- Lyric for Truelove / Undine Smith Moore. -- from The moods of my people ; Daedalus, fly away home ; Mae's rent party ; Club woman / Byron Motley and Barbara Sherrill. -- Heart ; Girl ; Havana dreams / Robert Owens. -- Clear water / Nadine Shanti. -- Singing for the sake of my soul / Frederick Tillis. -- Velvet shoes ; Nails ; That black reef / Dolores White. -- A song / Julius P. Williams.

Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now
Hyacinth [E4-F5]
Four Songs:
1, Even In The Moment [E4-G5]
2. Feast [D4-B5]
3. I Know My Mind [C4-G5]
4. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed [D4-B#5]

A White Rose (John Boyle O'Reilly) -- An April Day (Joseph Cotter) -- Because (Paul Laurence Dunbar) -- Beside the Sea (Paul Laurence Dunbar) -- Bewilderment (Langston Hughes) -- Dawn's Awakening (James Joseph Burke) -- Death's Gwineter Lay His Cold Icy Hand on Me (Spiritual) -- Feet o' Jesus (Langston Hughes) -- Four Encore Songs: Tobacco (Graham Lee Hemminger) ; A Flea and a Fly (Anonymous) ; "Come, come," said Tom's Father (Thomas Moore) ; Song of the Open Road (Ogden Nash) -- Go Down, Moses (Spiritual) -- God Gives Me You (Nora Connelly) -- Hold Fast to Dreams (Langston Hughes) -- I Grew a Rose (Paul Laurence Dunbar) -- I'm Goin' to Lay Down My Heavy Load (Spiritual) -- Love-in-a-mist (Mary Rolofson Gamble) -- My Little Soul's Goin' to Shine (Spiritual) -- My Neighbor (Paul Laurence Dunbar) -- My Soul's Been Anchored in de Lord (Spiritual) -- Night (Louise C. Wallace) -- Out of the South Blew a Wind (Fannie Carter Woods) -- Resignation (Florence B. Price) -- Rise Mourner (Spiritual) -- Save Me Lord, Save Me (Spiritual) -- Some o' These Days (Spiritual) -- Song to the Dark Virgin (Langston Hughes) -- Sunset (Odessa P. Elder) -- Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar) -- The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face (James Weldon Johnson) -- The Moon Bridge (Mary Rolofson Gamble) -- The Poet and His Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar) -- The Washerwoman (Otto Leland Bohanan) -- To My Little Son (Julia Johnson Davis) -- Travel's End (Mary Folwell Hoisington) -- Trouble Done Come My Way (Florence B. Price) -- Two Traditional Negro Spirituals : I am Bound for the Kingdom ; I'm Workin' on My Buildin' -- We Have Tomorrow (Langston Hughes) -- Weary Traveler (Spiritual) -- What's the Use (Paul Laurence Dunbar) -- Words for a Spiritual ("Capricorn") -- You Won't Find a Man Like Jesus (Spiritual)

With introduction on interpreting the vocal works of Still. Contains ten songs:
All that I am / lyrics by Verna Arvey -- Arkansas / words by Verna Arvey -- Bayou home / lyrics by Verna Arvey -- Brown baby / lyrics by Paul Henry -- Citadel / poem by Virginia Brasier -- Memphis man / lyrics by Paul Henry -- Mississippi / lyrics by Verna Arvey -- Sinner, please don't let this harvest pass : Negro spiritual / arr. by William Grant Still -- Song for the lonely / text by Verna Arvey -- Song for the valiant / words by Verna Arvey.