America Again
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Label: Sono Luminus
Cat No: DSL92207
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 11th November 2016
Contents
Works
Over the RainbowFrom Blackbird Hills, op.83
Blue Skies (arr. Art Tatum)
Anniversary for Stephen Sondheim
At Sea
Deep River
Sentimental melody
Melancholia
Porgy and Bess
Slumber Song
Li'l Boy Named David
New York Waltzes
Gladiolus Rag
Sueno Recurrente
Fantasie Negre
Promise
Shenandoah
Lonesome roads
Artists
Lara Downes (piano)Works
Over the RainbowFrom Blackbird Hills, op.83
Blue Skies (arr. Art Tatum)
Anniversary for Stephen Sondheim
At Sea
Deep River
Sentimental melody
Melancholia
Porgy and Bess
Slumber Song
Li'l Boy Named David
New York Waltzes
Gladiolus Rag
Sueno Recurrente
Fantasie Negre
Promise
Shenandoah
Lonesome roads
Artists
Lara Downes (piano)About
Langston Hughes wrote his poem in 1938. It was a different time, and America was a different place. The country was overwhelmed by the decade of depression that had crushed so many American dreams, and threatened by the gathering clouds of the war in Europe. It was a time when circumstances of birth and color of skin posed still-unchallenged restrictions to the liberty and justice that are at the heart of the American promise; divisions between races and religions ran straight down the middle of American life. Martin Luther King was a 10-year-old boy in 1938. His dream, and the dramatic changes it would bring to American history, was still to come.
America was a country divided, troubled, struggling and searching. But still, the dreamers dreamed their dream.
Today, as I write these words, we are living again in troubled times. For too many Americans, circumstance and skin color still keep the promise out of reach, the dream deferred. The hard-won rights and long-sought justice for which our parents and grandparents fought are too easily slipping away. The rifts and rivalries that divide us as a nation seem to run deeper than ever. But still, we dreamers keep dreaming our dream.
This music is a tribute to the generations of Americans who dream the impossible: black and white, men and women, immigrants and pioneers. It tells the story of their journeys, their loves and longings, their hardships and their hopes. American music is made of everything we are, coming from so many different people and places, expressing so many different dreams.
I hope this music carries you wherever you chase your dreams – across the sea, over the river, down lonesome roads, even over the rainbow. You can hear in this very American music, born of very American dreams, a promise: that if we keep dreaming, maybe, someday, even our wildest dream will come true.
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