AACI Compositions Performed

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Leslie Adams: For You There Is No Song
Anthology:Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers, compiled by Willis C. Patterson
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Edna St. Vincent Millay
Publisher:Edward B. Marks Music Company, distributed by Hal Leonard
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyCCy7Vhw60
Regina Harris Baiocchi: "Hold Out for Joy" (inspired by Psalm 30:5)
Instrumentation:voice, piano, cello
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/3aijNr3m89Q
Further information:Additional Information: cello part added by the composer
Regina Harris Baiocchi: Azuretta
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTjgaUeeiwI
Regina Harris Baiocchi: Hold Out for Joy
Instrumentation:soprano, piano
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXVTnRmHpGs
Regina Harris Baiocchi: Legends (John Henry)
Instrumentation:voice, conga, brake drum
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/Po5wYx3_pfM
Regina Harris Baiocchi: Shadows
Instrumentation:voice, piano, percussion, bassoon
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/0oShriYrIdo
Margaret Bonds: He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Anthology:Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, Vivian Taylor, editor
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2012
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXbyE5q9nE
Margaret Bonds: Lord, I Just Can’t Keep from Cryin’
Anthology:Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, Vivian Taylor, editor
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG3AwZYBNA
Margaret Bonds: Minstrel Man
Anthology:Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, Vivian Taylor, editor
also in Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers, compiled by Willis C. Patterson
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Langston Hughes
Publisher:Edward B. Marks Music Company, distributed by Hal Leonard
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of0qNXmgjJU
Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
Anthology:Troubled Water
Black Women Composers: A Century of Piano Music (1893-1990), Helen Walker-Hill, Editor
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcZe1QtIro
Further information:piano four-hand version adapted by Josephine Gandolfi from the solo original
Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
Instrumentation:piano & cello
Publisher:MS copy at CBMR, Columbia College, Chicago
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsW3gkH1Ow
Further information:piano part adapted for duet by Josephine Gandolfi
Margaret Bonds: You Can Tell the World
Instrumentation:soprano, piano
Publisher:Mutual Music Society, New York
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1bpWLsiKRA
Charles Brown: A Song Without Words
Anthology:Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers, compiled by Willis C. Patterson
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Edward B. Marks Music Company, distributed by Hal Leonard
Year performed by AACI:2010
2018
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l83_Y2EgszY
https://youtu.be/p6KO3_UZabA
Harry Burleigh: Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
Anthology:25 Spirituals, Arranged by Harry T.Burleigh
Instrumentation:voice, piano
Publisher:Hall Leonard, 2012
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/Fn9o9QZyTxc
Valerie Capers: Billie's Song
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:LaDoris Cordell
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2012
2016
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRkKmtgMHw
https://youtu.be/F5lR3yZy53M
Further information:2012: Billie's Song composed for piano solo, text by LaDoris Cordell, arranged for voice, piano, and bass by Valerie Capers
Valerie Capers: Billie's Song
Anthology:Portraits in Jazz
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2010
2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdyeo8QCQMo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-EW3396itw
Further information:2010/11: “Billie’s Song” (Billie Holliday) - text added and piano solo adapted for voice and piano by LaDoris Cordell, with permission of the composer, words by LaDoris Cordell
Valerie Capers: Bird Alone
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Abbey Lincoln
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2013
2016
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZdKj3MsyM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_KTjinKM3Q&feature=youtu.be#t=4m53s
Further information:AACI commission
Valerie Capers: Bird Alone
Instrumentation:vocal, piano, bass, percussion
Lyricist:Abbey Lincoln
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2016
Video:https://youtu.be/j_KTjinKM3Q
Valerie Capers: Bird Alone
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Abbey Lincoln
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZdKj3MsyM8
Valerie Capers: Blue Bird
Anthology:Portraits in Jazz
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yesf7sXD_QA
Further information:Instrumental and vocal parts added by Josephine Gandolfi with the permission of the composer
Valerie Capers: Blues for the Duke
Anthology:Portraits in Jazz
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2012
2016
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEHOwUYOVKs
https://youtu.be/graO9xpLNeI
Further information:Vocal parts added by Josephine Gandolfi to the original solo piano version
Valerie Capers: Bossa Brazilia
Anthology:Portraits in Jazz
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etGoeW7prfE
Further information:Instrumental and vocal parts added by Josephine Gandolfi with the permission of the composer
Valerie Capers: Brotherhood Begins With You and Me from "In Praise of Freedom"
Instrumentation:choral
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2012
2105
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmGd08BxKAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUnCXl1M3bQ
Valerie Capers: Cool-Trane
Anthology:Portraits in Jazz
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejF1kNoBUbI
Further information:Arranged for 4-hands by Josephine Gandolfi with the permission of the composer
Valerie Capers: Ella Scats The Lamb
Anthology:Portraits in Jazz
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2011
2013
2015
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ7glMEsFSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83qn1XydAYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0F9Ry34fQ8
Further information:Instrumental and vocal parts added by Josephine Gandolfi with the permission of the composer
Valerie Capers: Fanfare: Let Us Sing from "In Praise of Freedom"
Instrumentation:ensemble
Lyricist:Valerie Capers
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-IkjWMCQfs
Valerie Capers: Farmchild’s Lullaby
Instrumentation:high voice, piano
Lyricist:Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/8xV8RvtGV-Q
Further information:adapted from the original work for women’s chorus and piano
Valerie Capers: Hold On, Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Instrumentation:ensemble
Lyricist:traditional/Capers
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2015
2016
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G2usWLIpvo
https://youtu.be/G_e8WgQ-Xak
Further information:Traditional Spiritual/Freedom Song, arranged for AACI by Capers on commission
Valerie Capers: Introduction: The Preamble to the Constitution from "In Praise of Freedom"
Instrumentation:ensemble
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-IkjWMCQfs
Valerie Capers: Let Freedom Ring, from ''In Praise of Freedom''
Instrumentation:ensemble
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIisB63xPnI
Valerie Capers: Rainbow
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Abbey Lincoln
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atKSdfzTTr4
Further information:AACI Commission
Valerie Capers: Ruby -- Postlude -- Change
Instrumentation:ensemble
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2014
2016
Video:youtu.be/88tKd6mBcOU
https://youtu.be/ruyHg-kcR1Q
Valerie Capers: Ruby -- Tableau 1 -- Lullaby
Instrumentation:ensemble
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2014
2016
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UreuhKbBHtU
https://youtu.be/ruyHg-kcR1Q
Valerie Capers: Ruby -- Tableau 2 -- Mardi Gras
Instrumentation:ensemble
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2014
2016
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc9xbAMl9R8
2014
https://youtu.be/ruyHg-kcR1Q
Valerie Capers: Ruby -- Tableau 3 -- Where are all the children?
Instrumentation:ensemble
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2014
2016
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbtuMddFBms
https://youtu.be/ruyHg-kcR1Q
Valerie Capers: Ruby -- Tableau 4 -- Reflections
Instrumentation:ensemble
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2014
2016
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkH-RESi-zE
https://youtu.be/ruyHg-kcR1Q
Valerie Capers: Song of the Seasons: Autumn
Anthology:Song of the Seasons
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Valerie Capers
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2012
2016
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zYZLLiaoA
https://youtu.be/jdqVv3IM50k
Valerie Capers: Song of the Seasons: Spring
Anthology:Song of the Seasons
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Valerie Capers
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2012
2016
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMi9L4Lbyo
https://youtu.be/jdqVv3IM50k
Valerie Capers: Song of the Seasons: Summer
Anthology:Song of the Seasons
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Valerie Capers
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2012
2016
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liCwt1bB4Rg
https://youtu.be/jdqVv3IM50k
Valerie Capers: Song of the Seasons: Winter
Anthology:Song of the Seasons
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Valerie Capers
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2012
2016
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU23Xow6iG4
https://youtu.be/jdqVv3IM50k
Valerie Capers : Sweet Mr. Jelly Roll
Instrumentation:piano, flute, bassoon, percussion
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2016
Video:https://youtu.be/Bn77iT50mAw
Further information:arranged for piccolo, bassoon, and piano by Josephine Gandolfi, with composer's permission
Valerie Capers: Tapestry
Instrumentation:violin, cello, flute, clarinet, trombone, saxophone, bassoon, trumpet, piano, bass guitar, percussion
Lyricist:inspired by Langston Hughes Jazz poetry
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/44pO8t7EcJw
Further information:Commissioned by AACI
Valerie Capers: The Gift of Song
Instrumentation:singers, piano, flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, alto saxophone, violin, cello, bass, and percussion
Lyricist:Paul Dunbar
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/x2f1-FWeHRc
Further information:Last movement of 5 movement piece based on poetry by Paul L. Dunbar entitled "The Gift of Song", 1986
last movement revised in 2017 for AACI. Additional text by Valerie Capers.
Valerie Capers: The Monk
Anthology:Portraits in Jazz
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHdxR_SsY7A
Further information:Arranged for 4-hands by Josephine Gandolfi with the permission of the composer
Valerie Capers: Wagner Takes the ‘A’ Train
Instrumentation:piano, flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, alto saxophone, violin, cello, bass, and percussion
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/bPFq3Rxpwuc
Further information:Billy Strayhorn/Richard Wagner arr. Valerie Capers
Valerie Capers: Waltz for Miles
Anthology:Portraits in Jazz
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2011
2016
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TLNre_q9fE
https://youtu.be/uNahXCm4bFE
Further information:Clarinet part added by Josephine Gandolfi with the permission of the composer. Vocal part added by LaDoris Cordell.
Valerie Capers: Waltz for Miles
Anthology:Portraits in Jazz
Instrumentation:piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2016
Video:https://youtu.be/FmliWxgve-c
Further information:With trumpet
Valerie Capers: Winter's Love
Instrumentation:flute, piano, percussion, bass
Publisher:Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/LOwsSLZQydo
Further information:Based on a theme by Richard Wagner
Des'ree & Ingram: You Gotta Be
Instrumentation:ensemble
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0-Mnf_DhAM
Thomas A. Dorsey: Precious Lord
Instrumentation:recorder, piano, percussion
Publisher:arrangement by Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZUCqmqXeqM
Duke Ellington: I'm Beginning to See the Light
Instrumentation:vocal, piano, bass, percussion, violin, cello
Publisher:arrangement by Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqQHA7PjtSs
Further information:arranged by Valerie Capers
Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Instrumentation:piano, trumpet, trombone, basson, clarinet, bass, percussion
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2016
Video:https://youtu.be/AvjgO8JKKFI
Further information:arranged by Valerie Capers
Dizzy Gillespie: Night in Tunisia
Instrumentation:jazz ensemble
Year performed by AACI:2015
2017
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kB6VbNWE2I
https://youtu.be/lqAgvV_Bemg
Further information:arranged by Valerie Capers
Jacqueline B. Hairston: Guide My Feet
Anthology:The New Negro Spiritual, compiled and edited by Willis C. Patterson
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Willis C. Patterson
Year performed by AACI:2011
2017
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lB5g7lqslQ
https://youtu.be/HScJl_n-asE
Jacqueline B. Hairston: This Little Light of Mine
Anthology:The New Negro Spiritual, compiled and edited by Willis C. Patterson
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Willis C. Patterson
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFKoGAQO_bI
Roland Hayes: Lit’l Boy
Anthology:My Favorite Spirituals, 30 Songs for Voice and Piano, arranged and interpreted by Roland Hayes
Instrumentation:voice, piano
Publisher:Dover Publications, Inc, 2001, 2015
Year performed by AACI:2-18
Video:https://youtu.be/_y4Fvl4xxLw
Roland Hayes: You Mus’ Come in By an’ Thro’ the Lamb
Anthology:My Favorite Spirituals, 30 Songs for Voice and Piano, arranged and interpreted by Roland Hayes
Instrumentation:voice, piano
Publisher:Dover Publications, Inc, 2001, 2015
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/_y4Fvl4xxLw
Billie Holiday: God Bless the Child
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Arthur Herzog
Publisher:Edward B. Marks Music Corporation
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33W8En0hM_U
Betty Jackson King: Autumn Dance
Anthology:Four Seasonal Sketches
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Jacksonian Press, Inc.
Year performed by AACI:2012
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjMoblR7s1g
Betty Jackson King: In the Springtime (Shakespeare)
Anthology:Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, Vivian Taylor, editor
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Jacksonian Press, inc
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aft8gHLzneg
Betty Jackson King: It’s Me O Lord
Anthology:Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, Vivian Taylor, editor
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Jacksonian Press, inc
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIhpM4CzjWQ
Betty Jackson King: Nobody Knows the Trouble I See
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Jacksonian Press, inc
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCWfBPulTPQ
Betty Jackson King: Spring Intermezzo
Anthology:Four Seasonal Sketches
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Jacksonian Press, Inc.
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0QnYxsdL8
Further information:Arranged as four-hands piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi. Spring Intermezzo also in Black Women Composers: A Century of Piano Music (1893-1990), Helen Walker-Hill, Editor, Hildegard Publishing Company
Betty Jackson King: Summer Interlude
Anthology:Four Seasonal Sketches
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Jacksonian Press, Inc.
Year performed by AACI:2012
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgxiDtzh2_U
Betty Jackson King: Way By an’By
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Jacksonian Press, inc
Year performed by AACI:2012
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGmwBL79EY
Betty Jackson King: Winter Holiday
Anthology:Four Seasonal Sketches
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Jacksonian Press, Inc.
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khvj73Y9r4Y
Further information:Arranged as four-hands piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi
Antonio Carlos Jobin: One Note Samba
Instrumentation:piano, bass, percussion
Publisher:arrangement by Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl7usX7Cpk0
Hall Johnson: Leanin’on dat Lamb
Anthology:Thirty Spirituals, arranged for voice and piano by Hall Johnson
Instrumentation:voice, piano
Publisher:Hall Leonard, 2001
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/9ERCG_JeVHA
The Brothers Johnson: Tomorrow
Instrumentation:choir, piano
Lyricist:Siedah Garrett
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHFgvOL3_x4
Abbey Lincoln: Bird Alone
Instrumentation:vocal, chamber ensemble
Lyricist:Abbey Lincoln
Publisher:arrangement by Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHAkMS2_AO0
Further information:arr. by Valerie Capers for jazz trio, voice, with violin and cello obbligato
Melba Liston: Rainbow
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Lyricist:Abbey Lincoln
Publisher:arrangement by Valerie Capers
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qwwiwGFHA
Further information:arranged by Valerie Capers for jazz trio and vocalist
Charles Lloyd, Jr.: Compensation
Anthology:Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers, compiled by Willis C. Patterson
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Publisher:Edward B. Marks Music Company, distributed by Hal Leonard
Year performed by AACI:2011
2018
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmJLavuIdWs
https://youtu.be/dcJDWbyjAQA
Joshua McGhee: Ballad
Anthology:Variations on an African American Spiritual (for piano trio)
available from the composer:
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YoOCyygyCo
Further information:for piano trio
Joshua McGhee: Elegy for a Child
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:available from the composer
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWYlAiO4wow&feature=youtu.be
Further information:AACI commission
Joshua McGhee: Let God Bring Tomorrow
Instrumentation:piano, violin, cello
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/urGY5i4U_Hw
Further information:Commissioned by AACI
Joshua McGhee: Nocturne
Anthology:Variations on an African American Spiritual (for piano trio)
available from the composer:
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2012
2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56meprx1ijE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ0rEGKpxkA
Further information:for piano trio
Joshua McGhee: Prelude
Anthology:Variations on an African American Spiritual (for piano trio)
available from the composer:
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2012
2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3QhYrqL7dE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAsnreo116o
Further information:AACI commission, for piano trio
Joshua McGhee: Spiritual Piece (folk song)
Anthology:Variations on an African American Spiritual (for piano trio)
available from the composer:
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vLQ-voycOg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvLVxaBPmvw
Further information:for piano trio
Joshua McGhee: The Color of Love
Instrumentation:piano, violin, 2 cellos
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCE3OtsL0c
Further information:AACI commission
Joshua McGhee: Where Freedom Rings
Instrumentation:vocal, chamber ensemble
Publisher:available from the composer: eagle4619@gmail.com
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOST73wJUV0
Further information:AACI commission
Lena McLin: A Summer Day
Anthology:Black Women Composers, A Century of Piano Music (1893-1990)
Instrumentation:piano
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7xeWZ_9ykA
Lena McLin: He Had a Dream from "Free at Last! A Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
Anthology:Lena McLin, Songs for Voice and Piano
Instrumentation:soprano, piano
Lyricist:Manuel McLin
Publisher:Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYIq7AlFEwE
Lena McLin: Wait Till I Put On My Crown
Anthology:Lena McLin, Songs for Voice and Piano
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Neil A. Kjos Company
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsqcoRO97yI
Thelonious Monk: Round Midnight
Instrumentation:piano, bass. percussion
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/SQYOrjqADkc
Andre Myers: Harlem Night Song
Instrumentation:voice, piano
Publisher:Andre Myers
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/VpBS8qXemrQ
Zenobia Powell Perry: A Jazz Trifle
Instrumentation:piano
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/K8oUskMTCc8
Zenobia Powell Perry: De Angels Done Bowed Down
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:manuscript only
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-sDy6yVOyA
Zenobia Powell Perry: Flight
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:available from Jeannie Pool at Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjzx7emm5QE
Zenobia Powell Perry: Follow the Drinkin' Gourd
Anthology:From opera Tawawa House
Instrumentation:tenor, piano
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/7ZZkue4Y0Yg
Zenobia Powell Perry: Homage: To William Levi Dawson
Anthology:Homage: To William Levi Dawson
Black Women Composers: A Century of Piano Music (1893-1990), Helen Walker-Hill, Editor
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2012
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-2zzobcvH4
Further information:Work is based on "I've Been 'Buked and I've Been Scorned"
Zenobia Powell Perry: I Gotta Move When the Spirit Say Move
Anthology:From opera Tawawa House
Instrumentation:tenor, soprano, alto, contralto
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/BT-AhNXBlac
Zenobia Powell Perry: I Want Two Wings
Anthology:From opera Tawawa House
Instrumentation:soprano, tenor, piano
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/dZ3E-kjInXA
Zenobia Powell Perry: Juba and Dance in the Moonlight, from the opera Tawawa House
Anthology:From opera Tawawa House
Instrumentation:conga drums, dancers
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTNPfeA9jzs&t=3s
Zenobia Powell Perry: Jumping Over the Broom
Anthology:From opera Tawawa House
Instrumentation:piano duet
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Further information:Arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi with permission
Zenobia Powell Perry: Let the Knowing Speak, from the opera Tawawa House
Anthology:From opera Tawawa House
Instrumentation:soprano, alto, alto, tenor
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NTJoIf0XL8
Zenobia Powell Perry: Nocturne
Instrumentation:piano
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/cspRJPDkunI
Zenobia Powell Perry: Overture
Anthology:From opera Tawawa House
Instrumentation:piano duet
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Further information:Arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi with permission
Zenobia Powell Perry: Sinner Man So Hard, Believe!
Anthology:From opera Tawawa House
Instrumentation:tenor, piano
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/e6pX7fxRlI0
Zenobia Powell Perry: Sunset
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Publisher:manuscript only
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8YIKzzohNU
Zenobia Powell Perry: Up Over My Head I See Freedom in the Air, aria from the opera Tawawa House
Instrumentation:soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, piano
Publisher:Jaygayle Music
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaZ47asJeIA
Florence Price: I'm Workin' on my Buildin'
Instrumentation:soprano, piano
Publisher:Handy Brothers Music Company, New York
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw6BkoGuj8U
Florence Price: Nimble Feet (Dances in the Canebrakes)
Anthology:Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora, Volume 3, Compiled and Edited by William H. Chapman Nyaho
Instrumentation:piano
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI7S5O0NYtY&feature=youtu.be
Florence Price: We Have Tomorrow
Anthology:44 Art Songs and Spirituals by Florence Price, edited by Richard Heard
Instrumentation:voice, piano
Publisher:ClarNan Editions, Fayetteville, AZ 2015
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/RHIdgRFa7n0
Florence B. Price: Fantasie Negre
Anthology:Fantasie Negre
Black Women Composers: A Century of Piano Music (1893-1990), Helen Walker-Hill, Editor
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2012
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYDRNqTcgQ
Further information:Arranged as four-hands piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi
work is based on "Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass"
Florence B. Price: My Dream
Anthology:Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, Vivian Taylor, editor,
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Langston Hughes
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2010
2017
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhxF_aaYdmU
https://youtu.be/FQc6seWDjUU
Florence B. Price: Night
Anthology:Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, Vivian Taylor, editor,
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Louise C. Wallace
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0MplEP-SuM
Further information:also in Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers, compiled by Willis C. Patterson
Edward B. Marks Music Company, distributed by Hal Leonard
John Robinson: Disco-cioso
Instrumentation:piano, violin, cello
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/0JnzUa7fuFc
Further information:Commissioned by AACI
John Robinson: Fanfare For An Uncommon Woman
Instrumentation:piano, trumpet, trombone, bass, percussion
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2016
Video:https://youtu.be/P5MXbQJW_Is
Further information:Commissioned by AACI
John Robinson: Musique
Instrumentation:piano, violin, cello
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y3DRmInsHA
John Robinson: Tarantella With A Twist Of Lime
Instrumentation:piano, violin, cello
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2016
Video:https://youtu.be/LPt5l8ZGpJw
John H. Robinson III: Cell-Phonium, based on the "T-Mobile" jingle
Instrumentation:piano trio
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywk6Fhh4158
John H. Robinson III: The Secret Life of Mannequins
Instrumentation:vioin, cello, piano
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/F6bREA2j2r8
John H. Robinson III: Variation 1
Anthology:Variations on a Theme by Valerie Capers (arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi)
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hry3NmKnaFk
Further information:Arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi with the composer's permission
John H. Robinson III: Variation 5
Anthology:Variations on a Theme by Valerie Capers (arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi)
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhEpt6lizmM​
Further information:Arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi with the composer's permission
John H. Robinson III: Variation 6
Anthology:Variations on a Theme by Valerie Capers (arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi)
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYTfiJJ4GMg
Further information:Arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi with the composer's permission
John H. Robinson III: Variation 7
Anthology:Variations on a Theme by Valerie Capers (arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi)
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2013
2014
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GeeeoSCV6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktw-wDk6Yxs
Further information:Arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi with the composer's permission
Horace Silver: Doodlin'
Instrumentation:piano, bass, percussion
Year performed by AACI:2016
Video:https://youtu.be/cGkFogTMUDw
Further information:arranged by Valerie Capers
Hale Smith: I Want To Die Easy
Anthology:I Want to Die Easy
The New Negro Spiritual, compiled and edited by Willis C. Patterson,
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Willis C. Patterson
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbRg17KPWRs
Undine Smith Moore: Come Down Angels
Anthology:Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, Vivian Taylor, editor
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCjI1nRxfss
Undine Smith Moore: I Heard the Preaching of the Elder
Anthology:Afro-American Suite
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:International Opus
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbmDRgPnjsw
Further information:Originally for flute, cello and piano. Flute part played here on violin.
Undine Smith Moore: Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord
Anthology:Afro-American Suite
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:International Opus
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDQ41WyVfA
Further information:Originally for flute, cello and piano. Flute part played here on violin.
Undine Smith Moore: Shout All Over God's Heaven
Anthology:Afro-American Suite
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:International Opus
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oba69L5q7KU
Further information:Originally for flute, cello and piano. Flute part played here on violin.
Undine Smith Moore: Watch and Pray
Anthology:Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers, Vivian Taylor, editor
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Hildegard Publishing Company
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQz5dFXsB2A
Undine Smith Moore: Who is that Yonder?
Anthology:Afro-American Suite
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:International Opus
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M12wV8d15s
Further information:Originally for flute, cello and piano. Flute part played here on violin.
William Grant Still: Gardé Piti Mulet Là or Mister Banjo (Creole, Louisiana)
Anthology:Vignettes for Piano Trio
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2JkubQ6hwc
William Grant Still: Anda Buscando de Rosa de Rosa (Mexico)
Anthology:Folk Suite No. 4 for quartet
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2012
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMVkDbnDqJA
Further information:for piano trio and clarinet
William Grant Still: Camp Meeting': Walk Together Chillun
Anthology:William Grant Still. Twelve Negro Spirituals
Instrumentation:soprano, piano
Publisher:Handy Brothers Music. Co., Inc.
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThyJnhk653w
William Grant Still: Carmela (Mexico)
Anthology:Vignettes for Piano Trio
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIu1vomR6Sk
William Grant Still: Clinch Mountain (Southern U.S.A.)
Anthology:Vignettes for Piano Trio
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57IKUD4WZCU
William Grant Still: Dark Horseman
Anthology:Three Visions
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu0twRg29mc
William Grant Still: El Monigote (Venezuela)
Anthology:Folk Suite No. 4 for quartet
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2012
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC1Vser7sCY
Further information:for piano trio and clarinet
William Grant Still: Get on Board
Anthology:Spiritual Medley
Instrumentation:piano, violin, cello, clarinet, bassoon
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHQ0hAKSFaM
Further information:adapted from woodwind quintet with piano by Josephine Gandolfi
William Grant Still: Great Camp Meeting
Anthology:William Grant Still, Twelve Negro Spirituals
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Handy Brothers Music Company
Year performed by AACI:2009
Video:N/A
William Grant Still: Grief
Instrumentation:soprano, piano
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1siEMjK18I
William Grant Still: Héla Grandpère (Haiti)
Anthology:Vignettes for Piano Trio
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le0kr9GjDss
William Grant Still: Inca Melody (Peru)
Anthology:Vignettes for Piano Trio
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrAKz3LX1BI
William Grant Still: Jesus is a Rock in a Weary Land
Anthology:Three Miniatures for Piano Trio
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbJ5cmnCUhY
William Grant Still: Kaintuck'
Instrumentation:duo piano
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtQaznnJknI
Further information:Kaintuck’, for piano and orchestra (orchestral reduction for piano II by Verna Arvey)
William Grant Still: Lis’ten to De Lam’s
Anthology:William Grant Still, Twelve Negro Spirituals
Instrumentation:vocal
Publisher:Handy Brothers Music Company
Year performed by AACI:2009
Video:N/A
William Grant Still: Mother and Child
Instrumentation:violin, cello, piano
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/kM0VVyayETw
William Grant Still: Movement III
Anthology:Suite for Violin and Piano
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-_VNTnP7m4
William Grant Still: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Anthology:Spiritual Medley
Instrumentation:piano, violin, cello, clarinet, bassoon
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqdREle6WiY
Further information:adapted from woodwind quintet with piano by Josephine Gandolfi
William Grant Still: Out of Silence
Anthology:Seven Traceries
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPc5KydeXig
William Grant Still: Radiant Pinnacle
Anthology:Three Visions
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2009
Video:N/A
William Grant Still: Scherzo from Afro-American Symphony
Instrumentation:piano duet
Publisher:publication pending
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH8QuCukQNA
Further information:Arranged for two pianos by the composer and Verna Arvey
William Grant Still Music
adapted for duet by Josephine Gandolfi
William Grant Still: Song for the Lonely
Anthology:William Grant Still, An Art Song Collection
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Verna Arvey
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2009
Video:N/A
William Grant Still: Spiritual (A Deserted Plantation)
Instrumentation:piano
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xiy4leUSN8
William Grant Still: Summerland
Anthology:Three Visions
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2009
Video:N/A
William Grant Still: Tayêras (Brazil)
Anthology:Folk Suite No. 4 for quartet
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2012
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ypcVsYfXSs
Further information:for piano trio and clarinet
William Grant Still: Wade in the Water
Anthology:"Little Folk Suite No. 3"
Instrumentation:piano, violin, cello, clarinet, bassoon
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCOqDJHG7Y
Further information:adapted from string quartet by Josephine Gandolfi
William Grant Still: Winnebago Moccasin Game (Wisconsin)
Anthology:Vignettes for Piano Trio
Instrumentation:chamber ensemble
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2011
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPPfXV_WN2M
Howard Swanson: A Death Song (Lullaby)
Anthology:Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers, compiled by Willis C. Patterson
Instrumentation:vocal
Lyricist:Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Publisher:Edward B. Marks Music Company
Year performed by AACI:2010
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF7bgOd6_Ac
Bobby Timmons: Moanin'
Instrumentation:piano, bass, percussion
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/1E6f7wxevG8
Various: We Are The World
Year performed by AACI:2016
Video:https://youtu.be/LQMge_LoIJU
Further information:arranged by David Chaidez
Richard Wagner: Winter's Love
Instrumentation:piano, flute, bass, percussion
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2016
Video:https://youtu.be/ht8iRuaFQYs
Further information:arranged by Valerie Capers
Fats Waller: Jitterbug Waltz
Instrumentation:piano, bass, percussion
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOUu1-tybeQ
Dolores White: Down by the Riverside
Anthology:Four Negro Spirituals
Instrumentation:soprano, piano
Publisher:Dolores White Music
Year performed by AACI:2015
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or45KbFxY6g
Dolores White: Give Birth to the Dream
Instrumentation:soprano, tenor, piano, chimes
Lyricist:Maya Angelou
Publisher:Dolores White Music
Year performed by AACI:2017
Video:https://youtu.be/i0EGYIJ6_Y8
Further information:Arranged by the composer for soprano, tenor, piano, and orchestral chimes from the larger work for soloist, narrator, and orchestra
Dolores White: Glaciers
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Dolores White Music
Year performed by AACI:2013
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgG6wxlxKfw
Dolores White: Go Down Moses
Instrumentation:soprano, piano
Publisher:Dolores White Music
Year performed by AACI:2014
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqu9czSVUJM
John Worley: Winds of Change
Instrumentation:trumpet
Publisher:John Worley
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/g8qxqVCpjgg
Further information:Dedicated to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America
Roxanna Wright: I’m Thinking of a Butterfly
Instrumentation:Choir, rapper, keyboard, percussion and bass, with optional winds
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/YbMMgKF1nHc
Roxanna Wright: Two Thousand Twenty
Instrumentation:Choir, rapper, keyboard, percussion and bass, with optional winds
Publisher:self-published
Year performed by AACI:2018
Video:https://youtu.be/bGSZ0SRizoU