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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0636943966822 Item Dimensions:29 Label: NAXOS AMERICAN Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal Language Manufacturer: NAXOS AMERICAN Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: NAXOS AMERICAN Release Date: December 15, 2009 Studio: NAXOS AMERICAN
Disc 1:
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: A Prayer for the World; The Over Soul Sends to Us
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: A Prayer for the World
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: For We Have Walked the Streets of Babylon, Forty Thousand Strong
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: In Sacrifice
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: For the Future
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: Seeds of the World
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: Songs from Heaven Falling
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: Like Luminous Rain Upon the Daughters of Isis
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: Giving Their Children the Will to Continue
Dear Mrs. Parks, oratorio: Singing a Prayer for the Souls of the World
Product Description: Dear Mrs. Parks features a massive ensemble comprised of 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.
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Music
Six Miniatures for Violin, Op. 1, Nos. 1-6 (1998)
Miniature Sonata for Violin, Op. 2 (1998)
Images of Zoria, Op. 3 (1998)
City Images, Op. 4 (1998)
Sonatina for Violin and Piano, Op. 5
Miniature in Two Movements for Violin and Piano, Op. 6
Miniature for Two Violins, Op. 7
Life
Janice Garnett Augustus was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 31, 1945. She is the wife of writer Michael G. Augustus, mother of five children and has several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Beginning at an early age, she studied piano extensively under the tutelage of Rose Widder (protege of Leopold Godowsky, Russian pianist and composer) and studied violin with Gino Antal (of the Cleveland Symphony). She majored in violin at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and has played violin in numerous orchestras as well as flute and piccolo in several bands.
Janice now resides in Southern California. She retired in 1996 after twenty years as a teacher for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and twenty-six years as organist and director of two choirs for English and Bilingual Masses for which she used much original music. Now able to devote almost full time to composing, she has recently completed several compositions, mostly for violin and piano.
Janice is a member of the Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers, the American Composers Forum, the Society of Composers, Incorporated, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the National Association of Composers, USA, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
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