Adrienne Danrich - The Weary Blues: Drew Hemenger Songs

Size: 197 MB
Time: 50:47
File: Flac
Released: 2023
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. The Weary Blues (6:51)
2. Casual (1:39)
3. Still Here (3:08)
4. Summer Night (3:42)
5. Genius Child (2:17)
6. The Negro Speaks of Rivers (3:37)
7. January 1st (2:35)
8. The Risk (1:12)
9. Yellow (2:21)
10. Her Kind (2:40)
11. Snow (2:28)
12. Music Swims Back to Us (2:57)
13. Us (2:17)
14. Her Final Show (3:46)
15. Love's Prophesy (4:23)
16. Breaking Bread (3:26)
17. Ringing the Bells (1:19)

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.”

The Weary Blues: Drew Hemenger Songs FLAC

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