THE AMERICAN PIANO
The American Piano showcases America's
diverse musical and ethnic melting pot through accessible classical piano music and
smatterings of jazz. The album represents both male and female African American,
American Indian and European American composers with a mixture of familiar and new classical works for piano.
With Beatrice Nicholas - Solo Piano.
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3 Preludes, George Gershwin
-No.2 in C-Sharp Minor,
- No.3 in E-Flat Major,
China Gates, John Adams
Impromptu No.1 Op.68, Lowell Liebermann
Africa (arr. V.Arvey): William Grant Still
Fingerbreaker, Jelly Morton
Valley of Bones, Margaret Bonds
Female Rain, Connor Chee
From the Navajo Piano, Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No.1
Down a Country Lane, Aaron Copland
Seasonal Sketches, Betty Jackson King
Moonglow, Irving Mills /Art Tatum
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