SKU: PR.416412760
UPC: 680160092550.
This 17-minute symphonic song cycle was composed for soprano Renée Fleming in 2002, as a grand sequel to Three Persian Songs, using text from the Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam.
SKU: PR.11640106L
UPC: 680160687794.
SKU: PR.114419410
UPC: 680160681358. 9 x 12 inches.
Detroit, for several decades, was a city where I received many important composing and performance opportunities in the early and middle part of my career. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra even commissioned my second symphony. My cantata DONE MADE MY VOW has been performed there more times than any place else. The chorus for those performances was always the outstanding BRAZEAL DENNARD CHORALE. He loved his city and was a great mentor to me. The final movement of this quintet is dedicated to his memory.
SKU: PR.11640110L
UPC: 680160682751.
The Essay for Strings was written in 1986 in memory of Glenn Hull, a colleague and the choir director at Norfolk State University during my early years there. His sudden passing was a shock, and I expressed my sadness in this work. It was premiered that year by the NSU orchestra at their Winter concert. In w000, after conductor-composer Coleridge Taylor Perkinson gave the work its second performance in Chicago (with the ensemble of the Center For Black Music Reasearch), I decided to add it to my catalog of orchestra works. The designation Essay refers to the fact that the piece is based on one idea (like a literary essay). In this case the musical idea (or motive) is made from the initials of my deceased friend, Glenn Hull (G and H in music are represented by the pitches G and B-natural). These two notes are sounded throughout the work in tribute to him.
SKU: PR.11441941S
UPC: 680160681365. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: PR.11442307S
UPC: 680160688685.
SKU: PR.31241724M
UPC: 680160050789.
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