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Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women | 
 enlarge | Artists: Lena Johnson Mclin, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Undine Smith Moore, Julia Perry, Irene Britton Smith, Dolores White, Gregory Walker, Helen Walker-hill
Creators: Margaret Bonds, Florence B. Price, Lettie Beckon Alston, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Valerie Capers, Rachel Eubanks, Nora Douglas Holt, Betty Jackson King
Label: Leonarda Productions
Category: Music
Buy New: $22.99
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Sales Rank: 187640
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 019168033928
EAN: 0019168033928
ASIN: B000004AF2
Release Date: November 25, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Sonata for Violin and Piano: Allegro cantabile (Irene Britton Smith) | | • | Sonata for Violin and Piano: Andante (I. B. Smith) | | • | Sonata for Violin and Piano: Vivace (I. B. Smith) | | • | Three Pieces for Violin and Piano: Vignette (Dorothy Rudd Moore) | | • | Three Pieces for Violin and Piano: Episode (Rudd Moore) | | • | Three Pieces for Violin and Piano: Caprice (Rudd Moore) | | • | Prelude for Piano (Julia Perry) | | • | Spring Intermezzo [from Four Seasonal Sketches for piano] (Betty Jackson King) | | • | Troubled Water for piano (Margaret Bonds) | | • | Pulsations for solo violin: Gracefully (Lettie Beckon Alston) | | • | Pulsations for solo violin: Fast and Rhythmical (Alston) | | • | Pulsations for solo violin: Sow with much expression (Alston) | | • | Before I'd be a Slave for piano (Undine Smith Moore) | | • | Moderato [from Five Interludes for piano] (Eubanks) | | • | Larghetto [from Five Interludes for piano] (Eubanks) | | • | Cool-Trane [from Portraits in Jazz for piano] (Valerie Capers) | | • | Billie's Song [from Portraits in Jazz for piano] (Capers) | | • | A Summer Day for piano (Lena McLin) | | • | Etude No. 2 [from Two Piano Etudes] (Regina Baiocchi) | | • | Blues Dialogues for solo violin: Blues feeling (Dolores White) | | • | Blues Dialogues for solo violin: Expressive | | • | Blues Dialogues for solo violi: Fast and funky (White) | | • | Negro Dance, Op. 25 No. 1 for piano (Nora Douglas Holt) | | • | Fantasie Negro for piano (Florence Price) |
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Album Description
Music by African-American Women. Total Time 72:27. Unabridged bios in 12-page CD booklet. Violinist/composer Gregory Walker holds degrees in Music and English from Indiana University, Computer Music from the University of California at San Diego, and Composition from Mills College. He completed his doctorate in composition at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Walker is Assistant Professor and Director of Ensembles at the University of Colorado at Denver and concertmaster of the Boulder Philharmonic. Helen Walker-Hill, pianist, holds degrees from the University of Colorado, Smith College, and the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, where she studied as a Fulbright scholar with Nadia Boulanger. Formerly on the piano faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Walker-Hill has also served as a visiting faculty member. She has been a member of the Walker Duo with her son, Gregory Walker, since 1983 and has been engaged in research and performance of music by black women since 1987. Irene Britton Smith earned degrees from the American Conservatory and DePaul University and also attended Juilliard, Eastman, and the Conservatory in Fontainebleau. She taught elementary school in Chicago for 40 years while continuing to compose. Dorothy Rudd Moore graduated from Howard University and continued studies with Nadia Boulanger. She taught at the Harlem School of the Arts, New York University, and Bronx Community College. Recording, mastering, graphic design: Marnie Hall. Recorded in Marshall Auditorium at Haverford College, 1993 and 1994. DDD. This recording was supported in part by public funds from The National Endowment for the Arts and The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional funding provided by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music and The University of Colorado at Denver. Cover Painting, "Sengalese Woman" Malkia Roberts, 1972. Leonarda Productions, Inc., 1995. All rights reserved
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