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Known to Dreamers: Black Voices in Canadian Art Song

by Canadian Art Song Project

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This recording project celebrates contributions by Black composers and writers to Canadian art song. The songs programmed include works by composers Maria Thompson Corley and Larry Strachan alongside repertoire by James Rolfe and Robert Fleming that set texts by celebrated writers André Alexis and Owen Dodson.

Robert Fleming’s beloved song cycle The Confession Stone (Songs of Mary), which sets the poetry of African-American writer Owen Dodson, is performed by soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee and pianist Steven Philcox. Baritone Elliot Madore and Philcox present “A Broken Appointment” and “Now Blue October,” two songs by composer Larry Strachan on poems by Thomas Hardy and Robert Nathan, as well as the song cycle Moths composed by James Rolfe on original poetry by André Alexis. The Colour of Joy, by composer/writer Maria Thompson Corley and writers Kanika Ambrose and Christene Browne, is performed by Philcox and soprano Jonelle Sills.

These songs, commissioned for this recording, offer a story of resilience through the eyes of a woman of Black West Indian descent. Of the repertoire on the album, only The Confession Stone (Songs of Mary) has been previously recorded commercially.
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Cet album célèbre l’apport de compositeur·trices et écrivain·es de la communauté noire du Canada au catalogue de la mélodie canadienne. La liste des œuvres comprend des mélodies composées par Maria Thompson Corley, Larry Strachan, James Rolfe et Robert Fleming, sur des textes d’auteurs réputés, André Alexis et Owen Dodson.
Measha Brueggergosman-Lee (soprano) et Steven Philcox (piano) interprètent The Confession Stone (Songs of Mary), un magnifique cycle de mélodies de Robert Fleming sur un texte du poète afro-américain Owen Dodson. A Broken Appointment et Now Blue October, deux poèmes de Thomas Hardy et Robert Nathan mis en musique par Larry Strachan, sont interprétés par Elliot Madore (baryton) et Steven Philcox (piano), qui collaborent de nouveau pour interpréter Moths, un cycle de mélodies du compositeur James Rolfe avec textes d’André Alexis.

The Colour of Joy, sur une musique de Maria Thompson Corley avec texte original de Kanika Ambrose, Christene Browne et Maria Thompson Corley, est chanté par la soprano Jonelle Sills, accompagnée au piano par Steven Philcox. Cette œuvre, commandée par le Canadian Art Song Project pour le présent enregistrement, évoque la vie d'une femme noire d'origine antillaise confrontée à l'adversité, et témoigne de sa résilience.

De tout le répertoire figurant au présent album, seul le cycle The Confession Stone (Songs of Mary) avait auparavant fait l’objet d’un enregistrement commercial.

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released February 28, 2024

Credits / Acknowledgments
Producer: Denise Ball and Lawrence Wiliford
Sound engineer, editing, and mastering: Pouya Hamidi
Recording location and dates: Noble Street Studios, Toronto, Ontario. Moths, “A Broken Appointment”
and “Now Blue October” (June 27 and 28, 2023), The Confession Stone (September 29, 2023), The
Colour of Joy (September 30 and October 1, 2023)
Piano engineer: Akos Prekop
Canadian Music Centre: Holly Nimmons, President and CEO
Centrediscs: Keith Stratton, Producer

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