AACI Compositions Performed

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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
Genre:piano four-hands
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
Genre:piano four-hands
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
Genre:piano four-hands
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'
Genre:piano four-hands
John H. Robinson: Variation 1
Anthology:Variations on a Theme by Valerie Capers (arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi)
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Jaygayle Music/African American Composer Music Publication Series
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
Genre:piano four-hands
John H. Robinson: Variation 5
Anthology:Variations on a Theme by Valerie Capers (arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi)
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Jaygayle Music/African American Composer Music Publication Series
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
Genre:piano four-hands
John H. Robinson: Variation 6
Anthology:Variations on a Theme by Valerie Capers (arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi)
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Jaygayle Music/African American Composer Music Publication Series
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
Genre:piano four-hands
John H. Robinson: Variation 7
Anthology:Variations on a Theme by Valerie Capers (arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi)
Instrumentation:solo piano
Publisher:Jaygayle Music/African American Composer Music Publication Series
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
Genre:piano four-hands
William Grant Still: Dance
Anthology:William Grant Still - A Deserted Plantation, with introduction by Frances Walker-Slocum
Instrumentation:piano duet
Publisher:William Grant Still Music
Year performed by AACI:2019
Video:https://youtu.be/RFPXYuB9FI0
Further information:arranged for piano duet by Josephine Gandolfi
Genre:piano four-hands
William Grant Still: Kaintuck' (two pianos)
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)
Genre:piano four-hands
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
Genre:piano four-hands
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
Genre:piano four-hands