ANNOUNCEMENTS
EVENTS
I am extremely happy to send the following announcement regarding
a choral concert featuring some of my choral works. I do hope you will join
me on Oct. 6, 2002.
Thank you so much for your support.
Ysaye M. Barnwell
I, TOO SING AMERICA
a concert of choral music inspired by
Langston Hughes Centenary
WHEN: Sunday, October 6, 2002, 3 PM
WHERE: Dekelboum Concert Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland,
College Park
EVENT: Choral Concert In honor of Langston Hughes' 100th birthday,
This program includes the Washington, DC area premiere of Suite Death, a symphonic
work for choir and orchestra based on 4 poems of Langston Hughes and composed
by Dr. Ysaye Maria Barnwell featuring Stephen Salters, baritone.
The Four choirs which will be lifting their voices in song are:
The Lesbian & Gay Chorus of Washington
The Heritage Signature Chorale
The Washington Men's Camerata
The Washington Women's Chorus.
This is co-presented by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the Washington
Performing Arts Society and is funded in part by a grant from the Bridge Builders
Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region.
TICKETS: 301-405-ARTS or 202-785-WPAS.
There will also be a special pre-concert dance presentation.
Langston Hughes: Dance and Poetry
Sunday, October 6, 2002 @ 1:30 PM
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Dance Theatre
Admission Free
Choreography and Direction Alvin Mayes
Design Paul D. Jackson
RECENT
COMMISSIONS
TRUTH
PRESSED TO EARTH a Choral work (SSAATBB) with text adapted from Martin Luther
King, Jr. commissioned by Washington Choral Arts Society for the 2003 celebration
of Martin Luther King's Birthday. - completed, 9/2002
LET US
RISE IN LOVE - A JAZZ CHORAL WORK with soprano soloist - a response to 9/11
commissioned by the Mystic Chorale in Cambridge, MA - premiered in May, 2002.
The piece has been rearranged for Sweet Honey In The Rock and will appear on
our next CD - The Women Gather (in celebration of 30 years) to be released Jan.
2003.
SUITE DEATH 4 poems
of Langston Hughes set for
Baritone soloist, SATB, 2
trumpets, tuba, timpani, low field drum and strings by Ysaye M. Barnwell Premiered
Minneapolis, MN, Feb 18, 2001
PROCESSIONAL PRAYERS - New Music for women's voices and percussion composed by Jackie Rago and Ysaye M. Barnwell
Premiered Cincinnatti, OH, Feb. 4, 5 2000
New music - STEEL BOUND- and SATB Choral arrangements of 5 traditional and 5newly composed songs of Steel performed as part of
THE STEEL FESTIVAL
in Bethelhem, PA
Sept. 9-19, 1999
The following items can now be ordered
from Goldenrod
Music, Inc. a women's music distributor.
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HMM:
A Feast of African American stories and songs for Children performed by Ysaye
M. Barnwell, SoundsTrue / Windhorse Prod., 2000
CONTINUUM:The First Songbook of Sweet Honey In The Rock,
ed. Ysaye M. Barnwell, Contemporary A Cappella Press, 2000
NO MIRRORS IN MY NANA'S HOUSEby Ysaye M. Barnwell, illust. by Synthia Saint James, Harcourt Brace, 1998
ODETTA:Expoloring Life, Music and Song - a Video interview hosted by Ysaye M. Barnwell, Homespun Tapes, 2000
SINGING IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITION:An instructional set of tapes / CDs taught by Ysaye M. Barnwell with George Brandon, Homespun Tapes, 1985
WITNESS CONCERT This concert took place on February 18, 2001.
Baritone Stephen Salters, winner of the 1999
Naumburg International Vocal Competition,
joined the Ensemble Singers and Chorus of
the Plymouth Music Series, The University of
Minnesota Gospel Choir, full orchestra, and
conductor Philip Brunelle for the concert.
Program highlights:
John W. Work III: Golgotha is a Mountain
Jester Hairston: Amen, In Dat Great Gittin'
Up Mornin'
Ysaye M. Barnwell: Suite Death (world
premiere)
Elena Ruehr: Gospel Cha Cha (world
premiere)
Star Tribune Review
Pioneer Press Review
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World Premiere Feb 4, 5, 2000Cincinnatti, OH
of
"Processional
Prayers"
by
Ysaye Barnwell and Jackeline Rago
MUSE, Cincinnati's Women's Choir
with guest artists
Ysaye M. Barnwell Jackeline Rago
John Santos Linda Tillery
STEEL FESTIVAL
Bethlehem, PA,
Sept. 9-19, 1999
STEEL BOUND
script adapted from Aesculus' Prometheus Bound by Alison Carey, original music by Ysaye M. Barnwell
10 songs arranged for Bethlehem,
PA's newly formed
STEEL CHOIR
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Personal Ad. "African American Song-Goddess - proud, shy, strong, vulnerable,
wise, sensitive, musical to the bone but far too modest to
blow her own horn. Her work often takes her out on
the road, so when she's finally back home
she wants an available, down-home, loving, cultured and spiritual man to share
life's music, in major and minor keys. " If you qualify, you may reply.
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