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Blues Dialogues Music by Black Composers Rachel Barton Pine Blues Dialogues Piano Music by Black Composers Matthew Hagle RACHEL BARTON PINE VIOLIN MATTHEW HAGLE PIANO BLUES DIALOGUES MUSIC BY BLACK COMPOSERS RACHEL BARTON PINE BLUES DIALOGUES PIANO MUSIC BY BLACK COMPOSERS MATTHEW HAGLE DAVID N. BAKER (1931–2016) CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE (1880 –1960) 1 Blues (Deliver My Soul) (4:11) 14 Levee Dance (3:51) COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON (1932–2004) DUKE ELLINGTON (1899 –1974), ARR. WENDELL LOGAN Blue/s Forms for solo violin (6:51) 15 In a Sentimental Mood† (3:25) 2 I. Plain Blue/s (1:21) DOLORES WHITE (b. 1932) 3 II. Just Blue/s (2:59) Blues Dialogues for solo violin (10:13) 4 III. Jettin’ Blue/s (2:30) 16 I. Blues feeling (3:24) 5 Louisiana Blues Strut (A Cakewalk) for solo violin (2:32) 17 II. Expressive (2:45) 18 III. Fast and funky (1:13) WILLIAM GRANT STILL (1895 –1978) 19 IV. Moderately fast* (2:49) Suite for Violin and Piano (12:51) 6 I. Suggested by Richmond Barthé’s “African Dancer” (4:31) ERROLLYN WALLEN (b. 1958) 7 II. Suggested by Sargent Johnson’s “Mother and Child” (6:08) 20 Woogie Boogie (2:26) 8 III. Suggested by Augusta Savage’s “Gamin” (2:06) BILLY CHILDS (b. 1957) NOEL DA COSTA (1929–2002) 21 Incident on Larpenteur Avenue* (7:44) A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin* (13:05) DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN (b. 1971) 9 I. Walk Around “Brudder Bones” (3:54) 22 Filter for Unaccompanied Violin** (4:35) 10 II. Neumedia (2:56) 11 III. Little Diamond/Bird on the Wing Jigs (1:58) CHARLES S. BROWN (b. 1940) 12 IV. New Orleans Clog (0:58) 23 A Song Without Words†† (3:10) 13 V. “New Orleans” Clog Blues (3:17) TT: (75:51) *World Premiere Recording †First recording of this arrangement AVAILABLE DIGITALLY **First recording with new cadenza ††First recording of violin version WILLIAM GRANT STILL, ARR. LOUIS KAUFMAN “Blues” from Lenox Avenue for violin and piano (3:55) PERSONAL NOTE The researcher in me was inspired, that I’ve had the opportunity to share and I quickly discovered that most of with audiences throughout the world. RACHEL BARTON PINE 2018 this music is out of print or only exists in manuscript. So, in 2001, my RBP As I was reviewing selections for the As a native Chicagoan, I grew up jazz, including pieces such as the Ravel Foundation committed to our Music MBC curriculum, I found myself playing with the blues. Whether it was my Violin Sonata No. 2 and Corky Siegel’s by Black Composers (MBC) project. a blues-influenced piece. I started parents’ old LPs of The Siegel-Schwall Opus 11. I worked with my dear friend, MBC’s efforts include the creation of reminiscing about my teenage years Band, listening to Koko Taylor, Muddy violinist Edgar Gabriel, to learn to play curricular materials for young classical and flipping through the stacks of Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, Paul the blues and put those skills to the test musicians and the dissemination of music looking for others. Thus was Butterfield, and Charlie Musselwhite jamming with Son Seals and Sugar Blue information about repertoire and born this album of classical works for on WXRT’s Blues Breakers, going to the at an event at O’Hare Airport, one of history to professional performers, violin and piano with a strong blues Chicago Blues Fest, or sneaking into the musical highlights of my life. The educators, and others. In the course of influence, written by Black composers Kingston Mines as an underage music more comfortable I became, the more this project, we have collected more from the 20th and 21st centuries. enthusiast, this is my local indigenous I incorporated blues and jazz inspired than 900 works spanning four centuries music. I’ve watched the Martin repertoire into my recital programs and by more than 350 Black Composers I had the great honor of working with a Scorsese documentary numerous times as encores after concertos. (men and women) from North America, number of the composers who appear and own many collections of historic South America, the Caribbean, Asia, on this album and am deeply grateful blues recordings. This recording project might never Europe, and Africa. for their invaluable insights. Many years have taken shape if not for a recording ago, Chicago’s own Coleridge-Taylor One of my favorite things to do as a I made for Cedille Records in 1997 — The languages of these works are as Perkinson gave me some wonderful teenager was visit my favorite sheet Violin Concertos by Black Composers varied as the centuries and countries coaching and even attended an music shop, Performers Music, and of the 18th & 19th Centuries. The from which they hail, representing a all-classical program I performed at leaf through stacks of music in search album contained wonderful historic diverse range of compositional styles the legendary Green Mill jazz club of interesting new repertoire. You compositions by Afro-Caribbean and and voices — from the Baroque, that included his Blue/s Forms. Dolores can imagine my excitement when I Afro-European composers from the Classical, and Romantic eras to White and Billy Childs are more recent encountered David Baker’s Deliver My Classical and Romantic eras that had contemporary styles such as serialism friends with whom I have greatly Soul. Here was 12-bar blues made into been unjustifiably neglected. I soon and minimalism, and incorporating a enjoyed collaborating, while Daniel a classical work for violin and piano! found myself sitting on diversity panels variety of non-classical influences such Bernard Roumain and I go way back as I had to learn it — and I was eager to and fielding questions from students, as folk music, Negro spirituals, jazz, teacher and performer colleagues. I’m play more. parents, teachers, and colleagues blues, and even hip hop. Working on so grateful to DBR for writing me a new about where to find more works by the MBC project has introduced me introduction to his awesome Filter, just Over the years, I collected many Black composers. to many incredible pieces that have for this recording. classical works inspired by blues and become a part of my repertoire and 4 5 I hope to meet Errollyn Wallen I had long wished to play Noel I’m so grateful for the opportunity to one day soon, and her inclusion Da Costa’s five-movement share this part of my musical heritage on the album reminds us that a Belize- unaccompanied suite, but the with you. born British composer can be every complexity of the writing combined bit as funky as her American brothers with the hard-to-read handwriting of It’s my hope that, in years to come, and sisters. the manuscript created a significant this repertoire will be considered every barrier. Thankfully, the music was bit as mainstream as works by White The Rachel Barton Pine (RBP) Foundation’s As a proud member of the Chicago engraved just in time for me to learn it composers who are currently more Music by Black Composers (MBC) project Music Association (the National for the recording. It is an extraordinary well-known. Yet blues and jazz inspired spreads awareness of and access to music Association of Negro Musicians, piece and more than exceeded works represent but one drop in the by Black composers in ever-expanding Branch No. 1), I have been delighted my expectations. Wendell Logan’s bucket of the treasure trove of music ways, and places Black composers and to discover many great works by one masterful arrangement of Duke by composers from Africa and the their previously overlooked music into of NANM’s founders, virtuoso violinist Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood” African diaspora. I hope this album today’s cultural consciousness. In 2018, Clarence Cameron White. was another piece that required inspires you to seek out, listen to, MBC releases the first in a series of engraving in order to be performed. and play more great music by Black pedagogical books of music exclusively I almost missed Charles S. Brown’s composers! by Black classical composers, MBC Violin amazing A Song Without Words, as it I previously recorded the middle Volume I, plus a coloring book of 40 Black wasn’t composed for violin and I had movement of the William Grant Still classical composers, and a timeline originally decided to avoid non-violin Suite, “Mother and Child,” on my DEDICATION poster of 350+ Black composers. MBC is works on the recording. Since there Violin Lullabies album. It was a real To Michael Morgan, who got it also creating an online database that are no lyrics, however, it didn’t feel like treat to record the full Suite, probably all started, and to the memory of will provide information about works a transcription, so I decided to make the closest work on this album to a Dominique-René de Lerma, who written by Black composers; the MBC an exception. There is actually a long repertoire standard. I’ll leave it to you encouraged me to keep it all going. website (listed below) currently includes tradition of instrumentalists playing to judge whether my interpretation a searchable directory of living Black songs without words, such as those by as the parent of a six-year-old is composers. Mendelssohn and Dvořák, so I decided noticeably different than that of a to include it. That it was inspired by nursing mother. www.musicbyblackcomposers.org Blind Willie Johnson’s haunting “Dark Was the Night,” a hummed blues Blues Dialogues was an incredible joy classic, helped connect the whole to make and reconnected me with my album with its roots.
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