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Show Me The Way / Will Liverman
Cedille
Grammy Nominated

Show Me The Way / Will Liverman

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Composer
Jasmine Barnes, Amy Cheney Beach, Margaret Bonds, Libby Larsen, Rene Orth, Florence Price, Kamala Sa
Artist
Will Liverman, Jonathan King, J'Nai Bridges, Renee Fleming, Nicole Cabell, Lady Jess, Terry Liverman
Format
CD
Label
Cedille
Released
Mar 15, 2024
Catalog #
CDR 226
UPC
735131922623

About

Grammy Award-winning, “velvet voiced” (NPR) baritone Will Liverman presents a recital program honoring women in classical music, past and present, on Show Me The Way, his second “passion project” recording for Cedille.

Praised as “nothing short of extraordinary” (Opera News), Liverman has curated a moving and poignant recital celebrating American female composers from 20th-century trailblazers Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Amy Cheney Beach to present-day composers commissioned for this program. This new album, Liverman’s second with longtime recital partner pianist Jonathan King, is inspired by and honors the singer’s mother, gospel singer Terry Liverman, and their mutual love of song. The Livermans perform together on recording for the first time in their own arrangement of Alma Bazel Androzzo’s cherished hymn If I Can Help Somebody.

Two new song cycles serve as pillars of the recording: Jasmine Barnes’ A Sable Jubilee with a newly commissioned libretto by Tesia Kwarteng that celebrates Black Joy, and Libby Larsen’s three movement Machine Head: Ted Burke Poems, depicting everyday American life. Liverman premiered the cycles in an “extraordinary recital… as meaningful in content as it was rich with his resonant voice—both elements impressive for their range” (Aspen Times). Liverman, “one of the most versatile singing artists performing today,” (Bachtrack) is joined by all-star special guests including J’Nai Bridges in a somber new work by Rene Orth and Renée Fleming in Sarah Kirkland Snider’s mysterious and affecting Everything That Ever Was. He sings a duet from Amy Beach’s rarely performed opera, Cabildo, with Nicole Cabell, featuring violinist Lady Jess and cellist Tahirah Whittington.

Also featured on the album are Jonathan King’s arrangement of Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb’s You Show Me The Way originally performed by the duo at New York’s Savoy Ballroom, as well as a new work, Spell to Turn the World Around,by Kamala Sankaram, with a text that calls awareness to the destruction caused by wildfires. This recording follows Liverman’s “devastatingly beautiful” (The Washington Post), Billboard chart-topping and Grammy-nominated Cedille album, Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 You Showed Me the Way (arr. J. King for voice and piano) 04:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    You Showed Me the Way (arr. J. King for voice and piano)
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Bud Green, Terry McCrae, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  2. 2 No. 1. Inspiration 06:45
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 1. Inspiration
    Duration
    06:45
    Composer
    Jasmine Barnes
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  3. 3 No. 2. Luxury 04:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 2. Luxury
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Jasmine Barnes
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  4. 4 No. 3. Elevation 03:50
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. Elevation
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Jasmine Barnes
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  5. 5 I Grew A Rose 04:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    I Grew A Rose
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  6. 6 A Prayer 04:00
    Track
    6
    Title
    A Prayer
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Rene Orth
    Performer
    Will Liverman, J'Nai Bridges, Jonathan King
  7. 7 No. 1. Even in the Moment 03:04
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Even in the Moment
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Margaret Allison Bonds
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  8. 8 No. 2. Feast 01:26
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. Feast
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Margaret Allison Bonds
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  9. 9 No. 3. I Know My Mind 04:13
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 3. I Know My Mind
    Duration
    04:13
    Composer
    Margaret Allison Bonds
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  10. 10 No. 4. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed 03:02
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 4. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Margaret Allison Bonds
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  11. 11 Cabildo, Op. 149: Ah, Love is a jasmine vine with tendrils delicate and strong 07:16
    Track
    11
    Title
    Cabildo, Op. 149: Ah, Love is a jasmine vine with tendrils delicate and strong
    Duration
    07:16
    Composer
    Amy Beach
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Nicole Cabell, Lady Jess, Tahirah Whittington, Jonathan King
  12. 12 Spell to Turn the World Around 06:55
    Track
    12
    Title
    Spell to Turn the World Around
    Duration
    06:55
    Composer
    Kamala Sankaram
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  13. 13 Songs to the Dark Virgin 02:21
    Track
    13
    Title
    Songs to the Dark Virgin
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  14. 14 No. 1. Rexall 05:03
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 1. Rexall
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Libby Larsen
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  15. 15 No. 2. My Father Intercepts My Trip to Another Planet 08:36
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 2. My Father Intercepts My Trip to Another Planet
    Duration
    08:36
    Composer
    Libby Larsen
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  16. 16 No. 3. Machine Head 05:58
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 3. Machine Head
    Duration
    05:58
    Composer
    Libby Larsen
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Jonathan King
  17. 17 Everything That Ever Was 07:06
    Track
    17
    Title
    Everything That Ever Was
    Duration
    07:06
    Composer
    Sarah Kirkland Snider
    Performer
    Will Liverman, Renée Fleming, Jonathan King
  18. 18 If I Can Help Somebody (arr. T. and W. Liverman for voice and piano) 04:14
    Track
    18
    Title
    If I Can Help Somebody (arr. T. and W. Liverman for voice and piano)
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Alma Bazel Androzzo
    Performer
    Terry Liverman, Will Liverman