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African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Fela Sowande. Paul Freeman, Chicago Sinfonietta. Cedille Records CDR 90000 055.(Review)
African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Fela Sowande. Paul Freeman, Chicago Sinfonietta. Cedille Records CDR 90000 055.
Look. I'm only going to say this one more time (or until I hear another disc from this source), so listen up. The folks at Cedille are currently producing some of the best-sounding records in the industry. And as usual I'd like to commend engineer Bill Maylone for his contributions to the audiophile cause. This recording of the Chicago Sinfonietta under the directorship of Paul Freeman is outstanding in almost every way. The sound is spectacularly wide, robust, dynamic, detailed, and wholly natural. Highs are sparkling, bass is deep and strong (with a drum rivaling the old Telarcs), depth perception is excellent, and imaging is superb. If the sonics have any weakness at all it's in the slightly soft midrange, yet even here it matches what I normally hear live in a hall.
But don't just buy the disc for its sound. The music is more than worthwhile, too. Volume One in Cedille's proposed new "African Heritage Symphonic Series," the album includes works by three prominent Afro-American composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The program begins with two pieces by British-born Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), "Danse Negre" from his "African Suite," and "Petite Suite de Concert." They are lightweight and ...
- Style in modern Nigerian art music: the pioneering works of Fela Sowande.
- Magazine article from: Africa Omojola, Bode September 22, 1998 700+ words
...works of its most notable pioneer, Fela Sowande. After a brief historical background...background to the life and works of Fela Sowande (1905-87). The introduction of...African elements. These composers include Fela Sowande, the focus of this article, Ayo Bankole...
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Fela Sowande is now generally acknowledged as the most important twentieth-century West African composer of concert music and performer of...
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- Magazine article from: Ebony March 1, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound April 1, 2003 700+ words
Paul Freeman, Chicago Sinfonietta. Cedille Records CDR 90000 066. There are three good reasons listeners may be interested in this disc. First, it continues Cedille Records' series of classical music by contemporary African-American composers. Second, it's very naturally and realistically recorded.
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KAY: Overture; WALKER: Lyric for Strings; CORDERO: 8 Miniatures; HAILSTORK: An American Port of Call; Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed; SMITH: Ritual & Incantations Chicago Sinfonietta/ Paul Freeman Cedille 61-51 minutes This album presents music by the first generation of black composers who were
- Afro-American Symphony.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Bauman, Carl March 1, 2001 700+ words
...055--51 minutes This is labeled African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 1. Fela Sowande (1905-78) was Nigerian, Samuel Coleridge...shorter and lighter than the African Suite. Fela Sowande wrote his African Suite in 1930 while still...
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...Minnesota Public Radio. Except for the works by Guy Bovet and Fela Sowande, these pieces were composed by Americans. I thoroughly...pleasure to hear Wilma Jensen play. David Hurd performs Fela Sowande's Obangiji. Sowande was a Nigerian who immigrated to England...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 30, 2003 700+ words
...Fideles. The last named gave an evocative hint of the imminent Christmas season. Other composers featured were Du Image, Fela Sowande (an African composer who visited Jamaica), Douglas Guest and Widor. In his appreciation, Dr Anthony Lewis congratulated...
- Intercultural creativity in Joshua Uzoigwe's music.(Biography)
- Magazine article from: Africa Sadoh, Godwin September 22, 2004 700+ words
...Christ, Lagos, 1919-1962), Rev. Canon J. J. Ransome-Kuti, Rev. T. A. Olude, Akin George, Emmanuel Sowande (Fela Sowande's father), Nelson Okoli, and Ikoli Harcourt-Whyte (Omojola 1998: 455). The introduction of mission schools helped...
- Nsukka and the Death of an Idea.
- Newspaper article from: Vanguard (Nigeria) July 1, 2006 700+ words
...Studies, the premier School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the first and possibly only school of Social Works, the Fela Sowande School of Music at Nsukka was the first Music School and conservatory in Nigeria modeled after Julliard; Nsukka was the...
Source: HighBeam Research, African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor,...