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Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Melancholy
Odekhiren Amaize, baritone | David Korevaar, piano
Album: The Negro Speaks of Rivers: Art Songs by African-American Composers
Musicians Showcase 1011
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Flute Sonata
Adam Eccleston, flute | Monica Ohuchi, piano
Album: Amplify: Changing America's Playlist
Navona 6456
Piano Puzzler
Ted Fisher from Belgrade, Serbia
Errollyn Wallen: Horseplay
Continuum Ensemble
Philip Headlam, conductor
Album: The Girl in My Alphabet
Avie 06
Hour 2
William Grant Still: Summerland
Jean DeMart, flute | Ann Hobson Pilot, harp | Lydia Forbes, violin | George Taylor, viola | Mark Churchill, cello | Videmus
Album: Works by William Grant Still
New World Records 80399
Adrian Dunn: Prelude to Zeek
The Rize Orchestra | Adrian Dunn, conductor
Album: Emancipation Act 2 Live
HoperaWorld Music
Adrian Dunn: Zeek
Ericah Renee, soprano | The Adrian Dunn Singers
Adrian Dunn, conductor
Album: Emancipation Act 2 Live
HoperaWorld Music
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet in f minor, op. 2 movements 2- 4
Members of the Minnesota Orchestra: Rui Du, violin | Jenni Seo, viola | Silver Ainomae, cello | Kristen Bruya, bass | John Snow, oboe | Osmo Vanska, clarinet
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Louis Armstrong Arr. Anderson & Roe: What a Wonderful World
Anderson & Roe Piano Duo
University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA
Michael Dudley: Prayer for Our Times
Sphinx Virtuosi
Lillian & Robert Utsey Chamber Music Series, Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Xavier Foley: Ev'ry Voice
Sphinx Virtuosi
Sphinx Virtuosi: Tracing Visions, Ordway Concert Hall, St. Paul, MN
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