American Black or African experience

Af-Am exp

MIST OF TEARS

Composer: 
Jere Hutcheson

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$16.95 single copy; call ACA for discount on multiple copies for performance.

Prayer (from song cycle NIGHTSONGS )

Composer: 
H. Leslie Adams
Instrumentation freestyle: 
piano, voice

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$5.50 single song sheet music; specify voice range;
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$7.95 all three voice ranges low-medium-high (two copies $12.95)

TREEMONISHA

Composer: 
T.J. Anderson
Instrumentation freestyle: 
3-Act opera by Scott Joplin, orchestrated by T.J. Anderson

Treemonisha performance: Trilogy, an Opera Company 2009Treemonisha performance: Trilogy, an Opera Company 2009

Words and music by Scott Joplin. Adapted, arranged, and orchestrated by T.J. Anderson.

Orchestration: T.J. Anderson

The first fully staged performance of the Scott Joplin opera was given on January 28, 1972 at Morehouse College, in a production staged by Katherine Dunham and conducted by Robert Shaw, with orchestrations by T.J. Anderson. This production received fine notices, and brought Treemonisha to international attention.

Premiere information:
Conductor: Robert Shaw 
Editors: T.J. Anderson & William Bolcom 
Wendell Whalum, Chorus Director 
Katherine Dunham, Stage Director
 Premiere featured cast members: Alpha Floyd, Simon Estes, Seth McCoy, Louise Parker, Joseph Bias, the African-American Workshop of Morehouse College, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Score and parts available from American Composers Alliance; Recording of this performance with interviews available to NPR stations through satellite, 2000.

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$39 Overture, full score for conductor
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$85 Full opera conductor's score (Overture sold separately);
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for set of parts; vocal score (or portions of vocal score for specific scenes), contact ACA for quote

HYMN TO FREEDOM (Sop, Ten, BBar solo, plus 10 players)

Composer: 
H. Leslie Adams
Instrumentation freestyle: 
Sop, Ten, BassBar; Woodwind (1 player: picc, Bbcl, BbBscl, Ebaltosax), Bb trumpet, trombone, tuba (optional euph, bass tbn, or db), perc(1), piano, v1, v2, va, vc, db (opt)

Commissioned by the Center for Black Music Research, Chicago.

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audio/mpeg iconEXCERPT from 2nd movement - Chicago performance

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$29.50 conductor's full score

ONE AT A TIME, TWO AT A TIME

Composer: 
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Scoring: 
fl1,fl2,tp1,tp2,ob,ehorn,cl1,cl2,bcl,bsn,timp,perc,pf,vn1,vn2,va,vc,db; Soprano solo
Instrumentation freestyle: 
Soprano, Orchestra

Aria from the opera Frederick DouglasS, often performed in concert version.

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS, An Opera in 3 Acts

Composer: 
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Scoring: 
2-1-Ehn-2-bcl-1,2-2-1-btbn-0,perc,timp,pf,strings, Vocal Soloists

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, circa 1818 – February 20, 1895) an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman, minister  and reformer. Escaping from slavery, he made strong contributions to the abolitionist movement, and achieved a public career that led to his being called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia". Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African American and United States history.

He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

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LET THAT DAY BE DARKNESS

Composer: 
Jan Gilbert
Scoring: 
Choir (SATB), perc

For singers and West African percussion set in the Krio language of Sierra Leone, West Africa

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NIGER SYMPHONY

Composer: 
Frederick C Tillis
Scoring: 
cham orch:1-1-1-0,2-1-1-1,perc,str

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FREEDOM

Composer: 
Frederick C Tillis
Instrumentation freestyle: 
satb (pf for reh)

Chorus speaks, whispers, vocal effects, sound study on words "misery, suffering, pain, anguish, distress, freedom, wretchedness, despair, poverty, agony, degradation, destitution, grief, humiliation, rejection, despondency, abasement,affliction" Recorded 1972 at U of Mass, Amherst.

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audio/mpeg iconExcerpt, Univ of Massachusetts Chorale Singers, Richard du Bois, conductor

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THEME & VARIATIONS

Composer: 
Robert Kelly
Scoring: 
vln,vla,pf

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RIGHTEOUS MAN, THE

Composer: 
H. Leslie Adams
Scoring: 
satb(8pt), hn(2),timp,perc,hp,str

Cantata

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