Remember Me To Harlem Lara Downes, Davóne Tines & Titus Underwood

• Benny Golson (b. 1929):
• 1 Classical Dreams 03:51
• Eubie Blake (1887 - 1983):
• 2 Love Will Find A Way 03:40
• William Grant Still (1895 - 1978):
• 3 Song For The Lonely 02:32
• Margaret Bonds (1913 - 1976):
• 4 When The Dove Enters In 04:23
• Total Runtime 14:26

Info zu Remember Me To Harlem

Titled “Remember Me to Harlem,” the inaugural February 2021 program will focus on New York’s Harlem neighborhood as an iconic hub of Black creativity. Among the featured composers is William Grant Still (1895–1978), called “The Dean of African-American composers,” and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance movement in the 1920s. His Song for the Lonely is recorded for the first time in an arrangement for oboe and piano by Ms. Downes and Titus Underwood, Principal Oboist of the Nashville Symphony. Also featured in February is the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, whose lyrics set to music by close friend and collaborator, composer Margaret Bonds (1913–72), are sung by bass-baritone Davóne Tines, with Ms. Downes at the piano. The song is titled When the Dove Enters In, and is one of numerous Hughes/Bonds compositions, including their musical-theater collaboration Shakespeare in Harlem. Musical theater was an important part of the Harlem Renaissance, and Langston Hughes even credited the beginning of the movement to the 1921 all-Black Broadway show Shuffle Along by composer Eubie Blake (1887–1983) and lyricist Noble Sissle. Ms. Downes has recorded an unexpectedly poignant new piano arrangement of Love Will Find a Way, a hit song from that musical, arriving just in time for Valentine’s Day. Ms. Downes also performs Classical Dreams, a new work written for her by celebrated bebop saxophonist and composer Benny Golson (b. 1929). Mr. Golson was active in Harlem’s mid-century jazz scene and is the last living musician featured in Art Kane’s iconic 1958 photograph A Great Day in Harlem, which shows 57 jazz legends—including Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Charles Mingus, and Thelonious Monk—posed together in front of a Harlem brownstone. Throughout this EP, Ms. Downes pays a personal tribute to her father, who was born and raised in Harlem, and from whom she has inherited her own eclectic musical tastes and curiosities.

Lara Downes, piano
Titus Underwood, oboe
Davóne Tines, bass-baritone

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