Adrienne Danrich – The Weary Blues: Drew Hemenger Songs (2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Adrienne Danrich – The Weary Blues: Drew Hemenger Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:47 minutes | 815 MB | Genre: Blues
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The Weary Blues is an exciting new recording of songs, resulting from a long and wonderful collaboration between American composer Drew Hemenger and African-American operatic soprano Adrienne Danrich. The two have been collaborating as artists and friends for more than a decade, and the artistic synergy between them shines through in Adrienne’s shimmering and empathic performances of Drew’s eclectic and melodic compositions. Their collaboration started with a set of songs on Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, all of which are included here, along with a gripping and sometimes harrowing song cycle, “Which Way Home?” based on the poems of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, Anne Sexton.Adrienne is joined in the recording by Mila Henry, an award-winning pianist, conductor and music director, as well as Grammy Award-winning violinist Charles Yang and operatic baritone Eric McKeever.

In addition to Hughes and Sexton, a few other gems appear, such as “Her Final Show” on doctor/poet Rafael Campo’s poem, written for the AIDS Quilt Songbook at 20, and “Breaking Bread,” Hemenger’s jazzy arrangement of the traditional Negro spiritual, “Let Us Break Bread Together.”

Tracklist:

1-1. Adrienne Danrich – The Weary Blues (06:50)
1-2. Adrienne Danrich – Casual (01:39)
1-3. Adrienne Danrich – Still Here (03:08)
1-4. Adrienne Danrich – Summer Night (03:42)
1-5. Adrienne Danrich – Genius Child (02:17)
1-6. Adrienne Danrich – The Negro Speaks of Rivers (03:37)
1-7. Adrienne Danrich – January 1st (02:35)
1-8. Adrienne Danrich – The Risk (01:12)
1-9. Adrienne Danrich – Ringing the Bells (01:19)
1-10. Adrienne Danrich – Yellow (02:21)
1-11. Adrienne Danrich – Her Kind (02:40)
1-12. Adrienne Danrich – Snow (02:28)
1-13. Adrienne Danrich – Music Swims Back to Us (02:57)
1-14. Adrienne Danrich – Us (02:17)
1-15. Adrienne Danrich – Her Final Show (03:46)
1-16. Adrienne Danrich – Love’s Prophesy (04:23)
1-17. Adrienne Danrich – Breaking Bread (03:26)

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