Release Date: 28 February 2010
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943966822
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Lokumbe
Description
Dear Mrs. Parks features a massive ensemble comprising full orchestra plus choir and four vocal soloists. Influenced by blues, jazz, African music and Gospel music, it pays homage to Rosa Parks in the form of imaginary letters to the civil rights heroine. Hannibal Lokumbe's career in music spans over four decades. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Bessie award, the NEA, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He has composed works for the Kronos Quartet, the Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit and Houston symphonies.Lokumbe's inspired text elevated what might have been a trivial civics lesson into an organic sound world of poetic mysticism, pulsating percussion, work dong laments, optimistic spirituals, rhapsodic instrumental obbligatos and dynamic squalls of expression." Detroit Free Press"
Tracklisting
Peter Otto; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero
Dariia Lytvishko
Michael Kaykov
Danish Chamber Orchestra; Adam Fischer
DUO Goni-Perretta
Wenting Shi
Stuttgar
Schilli
Osiris Trio
Mona Julsrud; Philippe Graffin; Yuzuko Horigome; Roger Chase; Jeroen Reuling; Amy Norrington
John Potter, tenor, Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble, dir. Erik Westberg
Duo Rozemond & Bekkers: Reneee Bekkers, accordion Jacobien Rozemond, violin and voice
Andras Schiff
Andras Schiff
Zenaida Pally
Pieter-Jan Belder/Rainer Zipperling
