The Negro Speaks of Rivers: Art Songs by African-American Composers

Leslie Adams (Composer), Margaret Bonds (Composer), Charles (composer) Brown (Composer), Cecil Cohen (Composer), Undine Smith Moore (Composer), Robert Owens (Composer), Coleridge Taylor Perkinson (Composer), Florence B. Price (Performer), Howard Swanson (Artist), George Walker (Artist), John W. II Work (Artist), David Korevaar (Artist), Odekhiren Amaize (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Florence B. Price
• Composer: Leslie Adams, Margaret Bonds, Charles (composer) Brown, Cecil Cohen, Undine Smith Moore, et al.
• Audio CD (January 25, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Msr Classics
• ASIN: B00000243D
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #449,555 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Millay songs (5), for voice & piano: For you there is no song

2. Dream Portraits (3) for voice & piano: Minstrel man

3. Dream Portraits (3) for voice & piano: Dream variation

4. Dream Portraits (3) for voice & piano: I, too

5. The Barrier, for voice & piano

6. Death of an old seaman, for voice & piano

7. Love let the wind cry how I adore you, for voice & piano

8. Faithful one, for voice & piano

9. Genius child, for voice & piano (from song cycle Mortal Storm)

10. Melancholy, for voice & piano

11. Night

12. Song to the Dark Virgin

13. A death song

14. The Negro speaks of rivers, for voice & piano

15. A Red, Red Rose, for voice & piano

16. Dancing in the sun, for voice & piano

17. Soliloquy, for voice & piano

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rich and moving, February 17, 2001

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AfroAmericanHeritage (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Negro Speaks of Rivers: Art Songs by African-American Composers (Audio CD)

Amaize's selection of art songs covers a wide range of poets, among them Sappho, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Robert Burns. Whatever he's singing, you know it comes from someplace very deep in his soul. A wonderful CD.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nicely done!, September 25, 2010

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Patricia Lamb "a Teenager's Best Friend" (Scenic San Bernardino, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Negro Speaks of Rivers: Art Songs by African-American Composers (Audio CD)

As happens on Amazon, I found this while looking for something else. It's a group of American art songs, done right. It's very listenable, sample a few here!