“Roots and Branches” - Music - University of California, Irvine

Selected Discography of Art Songs by African American Composers
(partial source: Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College)
Ah! Love, But a Day: Songs and Spirituals of American Women. Includes songs by Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore, Florence Price, Jacqueline
Hairston, and Betty Jackson King. Louise Toppin, soprano, Jay A. Pierson, baritone, and John O'Brien, piano. Videmus/Albany Records Troy 385
(1999).
Amen! African-American Composers of the Twentieth Century. Music by various composers. Includes two song cycles: William Grant Still’s Songs of
Separation and Robert Owens’s Borderline. Oral Moses, bass-baritone and Geroge Bailey, piano. Albany Records Troy 459 (2001).
Créole Classique: Music for a New Orleans Soirée. Includes songs by Basile Barès, Samuel Snaër, Raymond Kerry Moore, and Anthony Peter Moore.
Various artists. GUMBO8319 (2000).
Dreamer: A Portrait of Langston Hughes. Includes songs by Robert Owens, William Grant Still, Hale Smith, Henriette Davison, Harry T. Burleigh, Florence
Price, and Margaret Bonds. Darryl Taylor, tenor, Maria Corley, piano, with William Warfield, narrator, Erik Santo, piano, and Patricia Terry-Ross, harp.
Naxos Records, American Classics Series 8.559136 (2002).
Fi-Yer! A Century of African American Song. William Brown, tenor, and Ann Sears, piano. Albany Records TROY 329 (1999).
For Doc: A Brothers’ Tribute in Song. Dedicated to Wendell Whalum. Choral settings by Whalum, Wendell Logan, Harry T. Burleigh, John W. Work, and
others. [Morehouse College Glee Club] Volume 10, MCGC (1990).
Heart on the Wall:African American Art Song for Orchestra. Music of Robert Owens, Julius P. Williams, Robert L. Morris, and Nkeiru Okoye. Louise
Toppin, soprano, Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams, conductor. Albany/Visionary Records TROY 1314 (2011)
I’ve Known Rivers. Includes songs by Swanson, Boatwright and Burleigh among other composers. Steven Marking, baritone and Richard Cherry, piano.
Mountaintop Studios and American International Artists (2002).
The Negro Speaks of Rivers and Other Art Songs by African-American Composers. Music of Leslie Adams, Margaret Bonds, Charles Brown, Cecil Cohen,
Undine Moore, Robert Owens, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Florence Price, Howard Swanson, George Walker, and John W. Work, Jr. Odekhiren
Amaize, bass-baritone. Musicians Showcase Recordings MS 1011 (1999).
Nueva España: Close Encounters in the New World, 1590–1690. Includes African-influenced villancicos, negritos, and dance music from the late
Renaissance and Baroque periods in South America. The Boston Camerata. Erato Disques Erato 2292-45977-2 (1993).
Poetry Prelude: Music of Richard Thompson. Darryl Taylor, tenor, Louise Toppin, soprano, Richard Thompson, piano. Albany Records TROY 830 (2006).
Remembrance: African American Songs. Includes songs by Robert Owens, John W. Work, Mark Fax, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Noel Da Costa, David
Baker, Harry Thacker Burleigh, William Grant Still. Dina Cancryn Foy, soprano, Polly Brecht, piano. DCF Records (1996). Unnumbered.
Sence You Went Away: Contemporary African American Art Songs & Spirituals. Music of Leslie Adams, Valerie Capers, Adolphus Hailstork, Cedric Dent,
Eugene Hancock, John Carter, and Wendell Whalum. Various artists. Albany Records Troy 387 (2000).
Songs of Illumination. Includes songs by Hale Smith, Camille Nickerson, Thomas Kerr, Adolphus Hailstork, Stephen Newby, Howard Swanson, William
Banfield, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, and a performance of T. J. Anderson’s song cycle, Songs of Illumination. Louise Toppin, soprano, and Bill Brown,
tenor, with Howard Watkins and Vivian Taylor, piano. Centaur Records CRC 2375 (1998).
The Unknown Flower: Song Cycles by American Women Composers of the 20th Century. Charsie Randolph Sawyer, soprano. Includes song cycles by
Valerie Capers, Lena McLin, Lettie Beckon Alston, Betty Jackson King, and Jacqueline Sellers. Calvin College Alumni Associate CAA-1004 (1999).
Watch and Pray: Spirituals and Art Songs by African-American Women Composers. Music of Betty Jackson King, Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore,
Florence Price, and Julia Perry. Videmus. Koch International Classics Koch 3-7247-2H1 (1994).
Where the Music Comes From: American Songs. Includes art songs by Harry T. Burleigh and Wendell Logan. Cynthia Haymon, soprano; and Warren Jones,
piano. Decca Record Company Argo 436 117-2 (1992).
You Can Tell the World: Songs by African-American Women Composers. Art songs and spiritual arrangements by Lena J. McLin, Florence Price, Julia Perry,
Zenobia Powell Perry, Betty Jackson King, Jeraldine Saunders Herbison, and Sharon J. Willis. Sebronette Barnes, soprano and Elise Auerbach, piano.
Senrab Records SRR7988 (2000).
Adams, Leslie. "For You There Is No Song." On: The Horse I Ride Has Wings. Donnie Ray Albert, baritone, David Garvey, piano. Now Recordings (1996).