Music Received

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Music Received Compiled by Kathleen Abromeit This column features musical settings of Black poetry. Asterisks indicate music by Black composers. The column was compiled by Gwen Gemmell, poet, and the column editor. Resources used were the Poetry Foundation website and the Theodore Front catalog. ANTHOLOGIES & COLLECTIONS: (Contains texts written by multiple Black poets.) *Adams, Leslie. Collected Songs: For Voice and Piano (1990). American Composers Alliance, 2021. Black poets included: H. Leslie Adams, Countee Cullen, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Score, 101 p. $41.50. *Adams, Leslie. Nightsongs: For Voice and Piano. American Composers Alliance, 1996. Black poets included: L. Morgan Collins, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Langston Hughes, Clarissa Scott Delaney, and James Weldon Johnson. Score, 59 p. $39.75. *Bonds, Margaret. Rediscovering Margaret Bonds: Art Songs, Spirituals, Musical Theater and Popular Songs. CVR, 2021. Black poets included: Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. CVR 5268. Score, 242 p. $55.00. Courtney, Vicki Tucker. Contemporary Art Songs for Men: Ten Poetic Settings for Male Voices. Alfred, 2013. Black poets included: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Freeman Edwin Miller. ISBN 9780739095768. Score, 79 p., and 1 compact disc. *Moore, Dorothy Rudd. Flowers of Darkness: Song Cycle for Tenor and Piano. American Composers Alliance, 1990, 2022. Black poets included: Leslie M. Collins, Frank Marshall Davis, Binga Dismond, Robert E. Hayden, and James Weldon Johnson. MODR 007. Score, 29 p. $28.50 *Moore, Dorothy Rudd. From the Dark Tower: For Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra (1972). American Composers Alliance, 1972, [2016]. Black poets included: Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson. Score, 46 p. $46.50. *Moore, Dorothy Rudd. Voices From the Light: For Women's Chorus, Oboe, String Quartet and Piano. American Composers Alliance, 1997 2018. Black poets included: Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. Score, 37 p. $39.95. *Powell, Rosephanye. Miss Wheatley's Garden- Three Songs on Poetry by African-American Women: For Medium High Voice. Gentry Publications, 2015. Black poets included: Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angela W. Grimke, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. JG 0730. Score, 20 p. $14.99. *Price, Florence. Five Art Songs: For Medium-High Voice and Piano. CVR, 2010. Black poets included: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes. CVR 4417. Score, 21 p. $15.00. Weir, Judith. Woman. Life. Song: For Soprano and Ensemble. Chester, 2011. Black poets included: Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. CH 61764-01. Score, 140 p. $65.95. MAYA ANGELOU (1928–2014) Bolcom, William. Let Evening Come: For Soprano, Viola, and Piano. Marks, 1994, [2003]. ISBN 9780634065828. Score, 20 p., and 1 part. $20.00. *Coleman, Valerie. Elegy: For Flute and Flute Ensemble. Vcoleman Music Publishing, Inc, 2015, [2022]. TPB 001017020. Score, 17 p. and 10 parts. $59.99. [End Page 448] Price, Deon Nielsen. To The Children of War, A Song Cycle for Tenor and Piano. Culver Crest Publications, 1990. Score, 28 p. $16.50. Trenney, Tom. Love Arrives: For SSA Chorus and Piano (2016). Galaxy, 2017. 1.3499. Score, 12 p. $2.35. ARNA BONTEMPS (1902–1973) *Anderson, Thomas J. Personals: A Cantata for Narrator, Chorus and Brass Ensemble. American Composers Alliance, 2019. Score, 55 p. $44.95. Benson, Warren. Drums of Summer: For Wind Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Marks, 1997 2013. 49200217. Score, 97 p. $135.00. GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917–2000) Bolcom, William. I Will Breathe a Mountain: A Song Cycle from A merican Women Poets. Marks, 1992 [1995]. ISBN 9780793542390. Score, 48 p. $12.00. LUCILLE CLIFTON (1936–2010) Walker, Gwyneth. No Ordinary Woman!: For Soprano and Piano. E.C. Schirmer, 2001 [2021]. 5728. Score, 33 p. $12.25. COUNTEE CULLEN (1903–1946) *Adams, Leslie. Dream Song: High, Medium and Low Voice with Piano. American Composers Alliance, 2018 (2021). Score, 24 p. $13.25. Cooman, Carson P. Christus Natus Est, Op. 1125: For SATB Choir Unaccompanied (2015). Zimbel, 2015 (2017). 80101378. $2.25. *Hairston, Jacqueline. Cullen's Trilogy (Three Poems of Countee Cullen): For Baritone Voice and Piano Accompaniment. CVR, 2016 (2018). CVR 5159. Score, 9 p. $15.00. Laitman, Lori. Sable Pride: For Soprano and Piano. Enchanted, 2013 2020. CVR 5257. Score, 13 p. $20.00. *Owens, Robert. Three Countee Cullen Songs, Op. 27: For High Voice and Piano. CVR, 2013. CVR 3958. Score. $15.00. RITA DOVE (1952–) Adolphe, Bruce...