Willian Grant Still: Miss Sally's Party
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Willian Grant Still: Miss Sally's Party
How wonderful Sirius-XM radio is when you are traveling! The other day I heard a piece by William Grant Still that I had to have. (We've all been there, I know!). This piece was entitled Miss Sally's Dance, comprised of eight sections in all. There is a marvelous piano part in the piece, but no mention of the pianist (probably Brunelle). The one CD I could find was on the Clarion label [905] issued as long ago as 1996 and apparently again in 2004. The album is entitled "Skyward My People Rose," and includes some other Still pieces: Wailing Woman; Swanee River (Old Folks at Home), And They Lynched Him in a Tree, Reverie, Elegy. Philip Brunelle is the conductor/organist with VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus with Orchestra. William Warfield, narrator, Yolanda Williams, soprano, Hilda Harris, mezzo-soprano and the Leigh Morris Chorale is involved. William Grant Still was a Black composer born in Mississippi in 1895 and died is Los Angeles in 1978. He wrote a considerable amount of music, including symphonies, much solo piano music and other orchestral and choral pieces. Miss Sally's Dance will get your blood moving, for sure! Anybody know this piece?
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When she started to play, Mr. Steinway came down and personally
rubbed his name off the piano. [Speaking about pianist &*$#@+#]
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When she started to play, Mr. Steinway came down and personally
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Re: Willian Grant Still: Miss Sally's Party
No, but I'd like to. Sounds fun - and maybe more than that.
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Just found a youtube link for this piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3qB-ch2k2M
and here is a fresh live performance of Still's Afro-American Symphony conducted by Karina Canellakis, all the more relevant given the recent events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dVPsrE2aCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3qB-ch2k2M
and here is a fresh live performance of Still's Afro-American Symphony conducted by Karina Canellakis, all the more relevant given the recent events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dVPsrE2aCg
Re: Willian Grant Still: Miss Sally's Party
Great hunting. Thank you.
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Yes, thank-you, stickles.
William Grant Still's music is inventive, full of depth and character, and thankfully, widely recorded and available on youtube and amazon. I hadn't heard Miss Sally's Party, though, and am happy to know the piece now.
Here's a disc of piano music that has won high praise:
William Grant Still's music is inventive, full of depth and character, and thankfully, widely recorded and available on youtube and amazon. I hadn't heard Miss Sally's Party, though, and am happy to know the piece now.
Here's a disc of piano music that has won high praise:
Re: Willian Grant Still: Miss Sally's Party
I enjoyed the piece, which was idiomatic, mildly jazzy and not without interest. But the party is much higher-toned than the pictures with the YouTube clip, which indicate a far wilder, more manic party for which this music simply wouldn't do.
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Re: Willian Grant Still: Miss Sally's Party
I have several discs of Still's music and enjoy it. Tuneful and colorful, he wrote for many instrumental combinations as well as for voice. It started with a song titled "Golden Days" I heard on the radio played by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra with soprano Margaret Astrup.
Thanks for the reminder of this wonderful composer.
John
Thanks for the reminder of this wonderful composer.
John
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