But Not Forgotten: Music by African-American Composers for Clarinet & Piano
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Label: Sono Luminus
Cat No: DSL92156
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2nd July 2012
Contents
Works
Scenes from Nigeria: PastoraleAmazing grace (arr. H Stevenson)
Episodes
Soul-Bird
Coty
Weeping Willow
Night Fantasy
Introduction and Allegro
Romance
Basque Folk Song
Artists
Marcus Eley (clarinet)Lucerne DeSa (piano)
Works
Scenes from Nigeria: PastoraleAmazing grace (arr. H Stevenson)
Episodes
Soul-Bird
Coty
Weeping Willow
Night Fantasy
Introduction and Allegro
Romance
Basque Folk Song
Artists
Marcus Eley (clarinet)Lucerne DeSa (piano)
About
Marcus Eley writes: “For many years, I have had the privilege of performing recitals featuring African-American composers for clarinet and piano. I have felt these composers needed a format, a champion, to make certain their compositions for my instrument were not ignored. In current classical or “art music”, there is little representation in mainstream recorded music of the African-American composer. Vocal music tends to be the exception. However, for solo wind instrument, especially the clarinet, there is nothing. I want this CD of clarinet and piano music to celebrate these African-American composers. Further, it is my desire that their unique voices are heard and not forgotten.”
Marcus Eley is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Music in clarinet, and studied at the Hochschule fuer Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria. Eley has performed as a soloist with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (Germany), the Louisville Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton (Canada) Wind Sinfonia and the National Army Military Band of the People’s Republic of China (Beijing). He has also given numerous recitals in major cities of the United States. On his New York debut recital in Weill Recital Hall, The New York Times cited his performance as “ ...expert, songful, and straightforward.” As a special honor, Eley was chosen to perform on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Lucerne DeSa has performed extensively as both solo recitalist and chamber musician. Her enthusiastically received solo recitals have been heard in such diverse locations as Middlebury College in Vermont, the Bera Concert Series in Brookhaven, New York, McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas, and the University of California, Irvine. She has performed with clarinetist Marcus Eley in recital at the Cité Universitaire de Paris; at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as part of the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series; and on the Old First Church Concert Series in San Francisco.
Ms DeSa and Mr Eley have also performed for radio WFMT Chicago, KUSC Los Angeles, and for the National Public Radio series 'Performance Today'. Their most recent collaboration was a recital of music for clarinet and piano composed by African-Americans at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. Regarding her collaborative playing, Cue Magazine declared, “DeSa’s pianism is out of the top drawer with her vast array of touches, huge dynamic vocabulary, exceptional control over nuances and phenomenal digital accuracy”.
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