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Song For The Lonely

from Remember Me To Harlem by Lara Downes

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William Grant Still’s music was shaped by his youth in Mississippi and Arkansas and his studies at the Oberlin Conservatory, but it was defined by his arrival in Harlem, right after World War I. A 23 year old fresh out of the Navy, he fell in with the young lions of the Harlem Renaissance as the 1920s roared along -- Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Countee Cullen -- and took the lead in translating the ideas of the “New Negro” into music. In 1931 his first symphony was performed by the Rochester Philharmonic -- the first time a major American orchestra played a full work by a Black composer. By the end of World War II the piece had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, and London. Still’s life was full of “firsts” as a Black composer and conductor who broke many color barriers during his long career. Song For The Lonely could speak to the loneliness of always going first - but when we dare to go first, we also lead the way.

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from Remember Me To Harlem, released February 5, 2021
William Grant Still
Titus Underwood

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Lara Downes has been called “an explorer whose imagination is fired by bringing notice to the underrepresented and forgotten”. Her musical roadmap seeks inspiration from the legacies of history, family, and collective memory, excavating the broad landscape of American music to create acclaimed recordings that serve as gathering spaces for her listeners to find common ground and shared experience. ... more

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