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Author Toppin, Louise.

Title Heart on the wall : African American art songs for orchestra
Published Albany, NY : Albany Records ; [Durham, N.C.] : Videmus Records, [2011]

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Contents Heart on the wall. Heart ; Remembrance ; Girl ; Havana dreams ; For dead mimes / Robert Owens ; poems by Langston Hughes (11:46) -- Myths of history. Africa ; History ; Slavery / Julius P. Williams ; based on the text of Edgar Toppin (7:47) -- Lyric suite. Dramatic declaration : Rockin' Jerusalem! ; Gospel blues : What shall I do? ; Humoresque : Scandaliz' my name! ; Lament : This may be my las' time ; Juba : Ev'ry time I feel the spirit / Robert L. Morris ; based on traditional texts (18:25) -- Songs of Harriet Tubman. My name is Araminta ; My name is Harriet, now ; I am Harriet Tubman, free woman ; I am Moses, the liberator / Nkeiru Okoye (25:03)
Notes The 4th work arias from an opera
Program and biographical notes with texts in English in container
Performer Louise Toppin, soprano ; Dvorak Symphony Orchestra ; Julius Williams, conductor
Event Recorded 2006-2007, Prague Radio Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
Notes Sung in English
Hard copy version record
Subject Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Musical settings
Toppin, Edgar Allan, 1928- -- Musical settings
SUBJECT Toppin, Edgar Allan, 1928- fast
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 fast
Subject Songs (High voice) with orchestra.
Song cycles.
Operas -- Excerpts.
Music by African American composers.
Music by African American composers
Operas -- Excerpts
Song cycles
Songs (High voice) with orchestra
Genre/Form Streaming audio
excerpts.
Excerpts
Musical settings
Musical settings.
Excerpts.
Mises en musique.
Extraits.
Form Streaming audio
Author Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Toppin, Edgar Allan, 1928-
Williams, Julius P.
Owens, Robert, 1925-2017. Heart on the wall.
Williams, Julius P. Myths of history
Morris, Robert L. (Robert Leigh), 1941- Lyric suite.
Okoye, Nkeiru. When I crossed that line to freedom. Selections
Dvořák Symphony Orchestra.