Title from disc label. Carl DuPont, bass-baritone ; Gregory Thompson, piano. Recorded 2018 January 3-6 Acoustic Barn Productions, Charlotte, North Carolina. Booklet with lyrics in German and English and biographical and program notes in English (14 unnumbered pages) inserted in container. This project was sponsored by UNC Charlotte's Faculty Research Grant and the Chancellor's Diversity Challenge Fund. A disc of art songs by African-American composers.
Contents:
Sometimes I'm not myself (Felix Morisseau-Leroy) (2:26) ; Bed bug (2:46) / Dolores White -- The foolish heart / Jacqueline Hairston (Countee Cullen) (1:49) -- Three Lieder für Bariton und Klavier, op. 20 / Robert Owens (Herman Hesse) (17:28) -- Selections from A love cycle. A love song (Paul Laurence Dunbar) ; Herz, mein Herz (Heinrich Heine) ; Adieu (anonymous) / Marques L.A. Garrett (9:36) -- She sat down for freedom / Jacqueline Hairston (composer and traditional texts) (4:15) -- Nightfall / Carlos Simon, Jr. (Courtney Ware) (5:49) -- The reaction / Matthew Taylor (6:17) -- A death song / Howard Swanson (Paul Lawrence Dunbar) (3:43) -- Day / Lena McLin (Paul Lawrence Dunbar) (1:37) -- Compensation / Marques L.A. Garrett (Paul Lawrence Dunbar) (2:02) -- Take, o take those lips away / George Walker (William Shakespeare) (2:24) -- Absalom (second book of Samuel) (3:28) ; Nunc dimittis (liturgical text) (4:04) / Eugene Hancock.
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