Kellen Gray: African American Voices II - COMPACT DISCS

Kellen Gray: African American Voices II - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

African American Voices II

Artist:

Kellen Gray

Label:

Linn Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

691062073127

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2023-10-20

Number of Discs:

1

?Kellen Gray has reunited with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a second instalment of African American Voices. Though representing differing schools of thought regarding African American classical music, the composers here are united by their roots in black history, culture and it's rich musical heritage. Drawing upon jazz and spirituals - 'I Want Jesus to Walk with Me' serving as the source material - Margaret Bonds' Montgomery Variations engages with African American history, namely the Montgomery bus boycott and the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. In this work, re-discovered in 2017, Bonds tackles the themes of strength, resistance, determination and faith. Bonds' contemporary, the prolific composer Ulysses Kay cultivated a neoclassical voice, as his Concerto for Orchestra exemplifies, very much in line with William Grant Still and his teacher Paul Hindemith. A versatile musician, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson comes a generation later. In his Worship: A Concert Overture, we can hear a blend of Baroque counterpoint, elements of the blues, spirituals and black folk music.

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