America Again / Lara Downes

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Label
Sono Luminus
Release Date
October 28, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEACH BERNSTEIN COPLAND
    • PERFORMER
      Lara Downes
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2016
    • UPC
      053479220721
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DSL-92207
    • LABEL
      Sono Luminus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. American Caprice

      Composer: Morton Gould

      Performer: Lara Downes

    2. I. Waltz in C

      Composer: Lou Harrison

      Performer: Lara Downes

    3. II. Hesitation Waltz

      Composer: Lou Harrison

      Performer: Lara Downes

    4. III. Waltz in A

      Composer: Lou Harrison

      Performer: Lara Downes

    5. Shenandoah (arr. for piano)

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Lara Downes

    6. From Blackbird Hills, Op. 83

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Lara Downes

    7. 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 1: No. 10. Deep River

      Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

      Performer: Lara Downes

    8. Lonesome Roads: Nocturne

      Composer: Dan Visconti

      Performer: Lara Downes

    9. Poems of the Sea: III. At Sea: Allegro vivo (version for piano)

      Composer: Ernest Bloch

      Performer: Lara Downes

    10. Porgy and Bess, Act II: I Loves You, Porgy (arr. N. Simone for piano)

      Composer: George Gershwin

      Performer: Lara Downes

    11. Sueno Recurrente

      Composer: Angélica Negrón

      Performer: Lara Downes

    12. 13 Anniversaries: No. 3. For Stephen Sondheim

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Performer: Lara Downes

    13. Promise

      Composer: David Sanford

      Performer: Lara Downes

    14. Slumber Song

      Composer: Howard Hanson

      Performer: Lara Downes

    15. Gladiolus Rag

      Composer: Scott Joplin

      Performer: Lara Downes

    16. The Jazz Singer: Blue Skies (arr. A. Tatum for piano)

      Composer: Irving Berlin

      Performer: Lara Downes

    17. Fantasie negre

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Lara Downes

    18. Blues No. 1 (Sentimental Melody: Slow Dance)

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Lara Downes

    19. Melancholia

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Lara Downes

    20. Li'l boy named David

      Composer: Roy Harris

      Performer: Lara Downes

    21. The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow (arr. for piano)

      Composer: Harold Arlen

      Performer: Lara Downes


Langston Hughes wrote his poem “Let America Be America Again” in 1938. The country was crushed by the decade of depression that had squashed so many American dreams, and was threatened by the gathering clouds of the impending war in Europe. Birth right and skin color posed restrictions to the justice and liberty which rest at the heart of American promise, and America was a country divided. Today, we still live in troubled times, where circumstances and skin color still keep the American promise out of reach for so many. The music featured on this release is a tribute to the generations of American men and women, both black and white, both immigrants and pioneers, who dreamed and accomplished the impossible. American music is made of everything that we are, coming from so many different people and places and expressing so many dreams. Lara Downes is a best-selling pianist, who with this release makes her Sono Luminus debut. She performs constantly across the United States, and has also been featured on European stages. This important collection of American repertoire includes three world premieres, and is a unique program which will resound with listeners in today’s world.