Chamber Music Flute,
Piano, alto Flute
SKU:
PR.114417270
Concert Variations for
Flute and Piano.
Composed by J. Johnson.
Arranged by Evelyn
Simpson-Curenton. Sws.
Contemporary. Score and
parts. With Standard
notation. Composed 1996.
16 pages. Duration 5:30.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41727. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114417270).
ISBN
9781491101919. UPC:
680160631605. 9 x 12
inches.
The poem,
written in 1900 by James
Weldon Johnson, was set
to music by his brother,
John Rosamond Johnson,
five years later, and was
soon adopted as the Black
American National Anthem.
The powerful song of
affirmation has been
frequently sung at
notable occasions,
recently at the opening
ceremonies of the
National Museum of
African American History
and Culture.
Simpson-Curenton has
arranged the piece with
her own variations as a
concert level entry for
flute and
piano.___________________
___________________Text
from the scanned back
cover:Lift Ev’ry Voice
and SingConcert
Variations for Flute (and
opt. Alto Flute) and
PianoThe song “Lift
Ev’ry Voice and Sing”
began as a poem written
by the lawyer and
activist James Weldon
Johnson in 1900; Johnson
later served as leader of
the NAACP, as foreign
diplomat during the
Roosevelt presidency, and
as professor at New York
University. In 1905,
Johnson’s brother John
Rosamond Johnson set the
poem to music, and the
song grew to be known as
“the Black National
Anthem,” continuing in
this role today over 100
years later. J. Rosamond
Johnson studied
composition at New
England Conservatory and
sang in the original cast
of Gershwin’s Porgy and
Bess. Together the
Johnson brothers were
influential and
inspirational voices of
the Harlem Renaissance of
the 1920s, and they also
created several operettas
and musicals.Evelyn
Simpson-Curenton is an
accomplished composer and
keyboard performer in
both classical and gospel
music, having been raised
as a piano prodigy and
the keyboard player for
her celebrated family’s
ensemble the Singing
Simpsons. Concert
Variations on “Lift
Ev’ry Voice and Sing”
was composed for
herdaughter, the flutist
Julietta Curenton.