Laura English-Robinson, Claritha Buggs, Gail Mitchell, Charsie Randolph, Erika Wheeler, sopranos ; Hilda Harris, Susan Matthews, mezzo-sopranos ; George Shirley, tenor ; Richard Taylor, baritone ; Uzee Brown, Jr., bass-baritone ; Willis Patterson, bass ; James Demster or Barbara Wimunc, piano; Matthew Barber, Robert Gabriele, Don Liuzzi, David Steinquist, percussion
Songs from Anthology of art songs by Black American composers, ed. W. Patterson (New York : E.B. Marks, 1977)
Automatic sequence.
Durations and program notes by Patterson on container.
Recorded at Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor.
For you there is no song / Leslie Adams -- Dancing in the sun / John Work, Jr. -- A good assassination should be quiet ; Early in the mornin' / David Baker -- Night / Florence B. Price -- Soliloquy / John Work, Jr. -- A charm at parting / Adolphus C. Hailstork -- Riding to town / Thomas H. Kerr, Jr. -- I will lie down in autumn / Howard Swanson -- Three dream portraits. Minstrel man ; Dream variations ; I, too / Margaret Bonds -- Melancholy / Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson -- Genius child / Robert Owens -- A red, red rose / George Walker -- Wry fragments / Olly Wilson (with percussion ensemble conducted by Carl St. Clair) -- Faithful one / Robert Owens -- Velvet shoes / Hale Smith -- A child's grace / Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson -- Two songs for Julie-Ju / Noel DaCosta -- Grief / William Grant Still -- Love, let the winds cry ... how I adore thee / Undine Smith Moore -- Song without words / Charles Brown -- Sweet sorrow / Maurice McCall -- Death of an old seaman / Cecil Cohen -- Lament / George Walker -