Repertoire

Below is a list of music programmed by Castle of our Skins over the years.
​World premieres/commissions are indicated with an asterisk*.

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solos

Alberga, Eleanor

• If the silver bird could speak - piano

Bach, Johann Sebastian

• Chaconne - vibraphone

Berio, Luciano

• Selections from 34 duos for Two Violins 

Bland, Ed

• For Flute
• For Violin
• Sketches Set #7, segments I, II, & V - piano

Bonds, Margaret

• Troubled Water (from Spiritual Suite) - piano

​​Burleigh, Henry Thacker “Harry” (H. T.)

• "On Bended Knee" from "Songs from the Southland" - piano​

Capers, Valerie

• Portraits in Jazz - piano

Green, Anthony R.

• A Little History ~ 9 Little Poems about 9 Legendary People - solo narrating violist*
• dhakira: a middle eastern impression - sax*​

Hailstork, Adolphus

• 3 Pieces for flute​

Holland, Jonathan Bailey

• Intimacy of Harmony - piano

Loggins-Hall, Allison

• Homeland - flute

Joplin, Scott​

• Maple Leaf Rag - piano

Kay, Ulysses

• Prelude - flute

Kinney, L. Viola

• Mother’s Sacrifice - piano

Lateef Yussef

• Klockology - sax

Montgomery, Jessie

• Rhapsody - violin

Moore, Undine Smith

• Before I'd Be a Slave - piano

Mumford, Jeffrey

• eight musings...revisiting memories - violin
• revisiting variazoni elegiaci - viola​

Myers, Andre

• Falling Skyward - flute

Nash, Gary Powell

• Argemarillo Fantasy No. 3  - piano
• Sui Generis Bastion - viola

Nombeko, Nailah

• Preludes for Piano

Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor

• Black Folksong Suite - cello

Perry, Zenobia Powell

• Homage - piano

Tillis, Frederick

• Three Showpieces for Viola "Soliloquy"

Weston, Trevor

• Eurythmy Variations - piano
• Wafting Clouds - piano​

vocal

Adams, H. Leslie

• Love Memory - voice, piano
• Nightsongs - voice, piano
• Prayer - voice, piano

Bailey, Maible

• Seasons - voice, piano
• Birdsong - voice, piano
• Seven Days - voice, piano

Baker, Renée C.

• No Safety In Silence - voice, clarinet, piano quintet*​

​Banfield, William C.

• Spiritual Songs - tenor, cello​

Beebe, Samuel

• Rocking Chair Child - soprano, tenor, piano quintet* ​

Bonds, Margaret

• Three Dream Portraits - voice, piano

​​Burleigh, Henry Thacker “Harry” (H. T.)

• Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel - voice, piano
• Deep River - voice, piano​​

Julius Eastman

• Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc -voice

Green, Anthony R.

• Oh, Freedom! - spoken word, voice, flute, viola, cello*​

Greene, Ethan Frederick

• Three Eady Songs - mezzo-soprano piano

Hailstork, Adolphus

• Robeson: The Opera (excerpt) ​
• Slave Songs - baritone, piano
• Songs of Love and Justice - soprano, piano

​​Hairston, Jacqueline B.

• On Consciousness Streams - soprano, piano

​Hayes, Roland

• Steal Away - voice, piano
• You're Tired Chile - voice, piano

Joachim, Nathalie

• Madan Bellegarde from "Fanm d’Ayiti" - voice, flute, electronics, string quartet ​

Leon, Tania

• Oh Yemanja - voice, cello, piano

Li, Frank S.

• The Heart of a Woman - soprano, string quartet*

Montgomery, Jessie

• I Want to Go Home - soprano, string quartet

Moore, Dorothy Rudd

• Frederick Douglass (opera excerpt)
  • ​Ah Been a Slave All My Life
  • Lullaby
• Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death - voice, piano, violin

Moore, Undine Smith

• Love Let The Wind Cry...How I Adore Thee - soprano, piano
• Scenes From the Life of a Martyr (oratorio excerpt)​

Okoye, Nkeiru

• Songs of Harriet Tubman - soprano, piano

Owens, R.L.

• Mortal Storm - voice, piano

​​​Perry, Zenobia Powell

• The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah - flute, voice, piano

Price, Florence B.

• A Flea and a Fly - voice, piano
• Beside the Sea - voice, piano
• Hold Fast to Dreams - voice, piano
• My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord - voice, piano
• Night - voice, piano
• Song to the Dark Virgin - voice, piano
• Sympathy - voice, piano

​Roumain, Daniel Bernard

• Music for Black People​ - voice, flute, cello, piano*

Swanson, Howard

• I Will Lie Down in Autumn - baritone, piano
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers - baritone, piano

Tawengwa, Tanyaradzwa A.

• Moyo Muti Unomera Paunoda - voice and movement*
• Misozdi YaMarimba - narrator, SATB, piano, bass, percussion

​​Weston, Trevor

• Comfort Songs - soprano, piano
• Evening Songs - baritone, piano
• Songs for the Anonymous Lover - soprano, viola, cello

White, L.J

• ​Way Down Yonder - soprano, string trio*

Williams, Julius

• Songs for Baritone - baritone, piano​ 

Z, Pamela

• Carbon Song Cycle - voice, electronics, cello, viola, bassoon, percussion​

duos

Berio, Luciano

• 34 duos for Two Violins (arr. for Violin and Viola)

Britton-Smith, Irene

• Sonata for Violin and Piano

Chevalier de Saint-Georges

• Sonata for harp and flute - flute, harp

Green, Anthony R.

• …on top of a frosted hill… - viola & piano*
• Passeios - flute, harp
• Scintillation II - viola, cello​
• various arrangements of traditional folk songs, spirituals, civil rights songs, Christmas songs, hymns, and more 

​Hailstork, Adolphus

• Sanctum Rhapsody for Viola and Piano ​
• Two Romances for Viola and Orchestra - viola, piano

Kay, Ulysses

• Suite for Flute and Oboe

​Montgomery, Jessie

• Duo for violin and cello

Mumford, Jeffrey

• ​eight aspects of appreciation II - violin, cello​
• through the filtering dawn of spreading daybright - viola, bass

Ndodani-Breen, Bongani

• Khanyisa, elegy for violin and piano - violin, piano

Still, William Grant

• Mother and Child - flute, piano
• Romance - sax, piano​​​​

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trios

Baker, David

• Roots II “Boogie Woogie” - violin, cello, piano

​Coleman, Valerie

• Portraits of Langston - flute, clarinet, piano, narrator

Green, Anthony R.

• Collide-oscope III - oboe, clarinets in B-flat, bassoon*​
• various arrangements of traditional folk songs, spirituals, civil rights songs, Christmas songs, hymns, and more ​​

León Tania

• Á Tres Voces - string trio

​Mays, Jessica

• Bear - countertenor, cello, piano*

Moore, Undine Smith

• Afro-American Suite - flute, cello, piano
• Soweto - piano trio​​

Mumford, Jeffrey

• in soft echoes...a world awaits - string trio​

Nabors, Brian Raphael

• Piano Trio - violin, cello, piano

Ndodani-Breen, Bongani

• Two Nguni Dances for piano trio - violin, cello, piano​

Simon, Carlos

• Be Still and Know - violin, cello, piano

Singleton, Alvin

• Jasper Drag - violin, clarinet, piano​

Spiva Jr., Derrick

• Crossings - flute, viola, harp​

​​Taylor-Perkinson, Coleridge

• Movement for String Trio - violin, viola, cello

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string quartet

Alberga, Eleanor

• Remember
• String Quartet No. 2

Banfield William C.

• Suite for Susan "Dawn"

Bartok, Bela

• String Quartet No. 4, Allegro Molto 

Bologne, Joseph “Chevalier de Saint-Georges”

• String Quartet No. 3
• String Quartet No. 6
• String Quartet Op. 14 No. 3 
• String Quartet Op. 14 No. 6 

​Chun-ting, Pang

• Static Dance*

Coleman, Valerie

• Umoja 

​​Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

• Fantasie-stüke Op. 5

Dawson, William

• Largo for String Quartet

Dvorak, Anton

• Quartet movement in A minor, Andante appassionato con sordino

​Ellington, Duke

• Pigeons and Peppers

Green, Anthony R.

• various arrangements of traditional folk songs, spirituals, civil rights songs, Christmas songs, hymns, and more 
• Chance

Holland, Jonathan Bailey

• Forged Sanctuaries

Kendall, Hannah

• Glances/I Don't Belong Here

Koapeng, Mokale 

• ​Komeng

Kurtág, György

• Hommage a András Mihály for String Quartet, Op. 13

Joplin, Scott

• Bethena, a Concert Waltz
• Heliotope Bouquet Rag 
• Solace, a Mexican Serenade

​​Montgomery, Jessie

• Break Away
• Source Code
• Strum 
• Voodoo Dolls 

​​Moore, Dorothy Rudd

• Modes for String Quartet​

Masebe, Monthati 

• Nomadic Nirvana

Mumford, Jeffrey

• a veil of liquid diamonds 

​Nabors, Brian Raphael

• Linstead Market*

Ndodani-Breen, Bongani

• Apologia At Umzimvubu
• Impepho

Onovwerosuoke, Fred 

• Fanfare for String Quartet

Price, Florence B.

• Five Folksongs in Counterpoint
• String Quartet in G Major
• String Quartet in a minor

Roumain, Daniel Bernard

• ​String Quartet No. 2 "King"
• String Quartet No. 5 "Parks"

Singleton, Alvin

• Secret Desire to Be Black

Still, William Grant

• Danzas de Panama 
• Lyric Quartet

Taylor-Perkinson, Coleridge

• String Quartet No. 1 "Calvary"

Tillis, Frederick

• Spiritual Fantasy No. 12

Walker, George

• String Quartet No. 1

Weston, Trevor

• Fudo Myoo
• Juba

mixed chamber music

​​Baker, Renée C.

• MASTERING NECESSITY: A STORY QUILT - strings, piano, and recorded percussion*​
• Uncovered/Extended: the Black Holocaust from Slavery to Prison Industry - violin, viola, sax, double bass*​

Brown, Elizabeth

• Housetop - flute, string quartet, piano, spoken voice​*

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

• Clarinet Quintet Op. 10 in F-sharp minor
• Piano Quintet

Eastman, Julius

• Holy Presence of Joan D'Arc - 10 cellos plus dance

Green, Anthony R.

• 3 Controlled Improvisations: Outrage, Perplexed, Protesting - violin, viola, sax, double bass* ​​
• various arrangements of traditional folk songs, spirituals, civil rights songs, Christmas songs, hymns, and more 

Holland, Jonathan Bailey

• ​Synchrony - oboe, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, tape 

Ingram, Clifton

• Tyaphaka - dancer, string trio*​​

Kendall, Hannah

• Network Bed - piano quartet
• Vera - clarinet, string trio

León, Tania

• De Memorias - woodwind quintet​​

Lolda, Julian

• Dance Improvisation​

McCall, Lauren

• Quilting Codes - flute, string quartet, piano, spoken voice*

Masebe, Monthati

• Solar Plexus Chakra Soundbath - electronics, poetry, movement​

Ndodani-Breen, Bongani

• Safika: Three Tales of African Migration - piano quintet
• Intlanzi Yase Mzantsi - piano quintet

Price, Florence

• Piano Quintet No. 2 

Rzewski, Frederick

• Attica - mixed ensemble​

Sanford, David

• Untitled - oboe, clarinet, string trio*​

Williams, Evan

• Bodies Upon the Gears - flute, viola, fixed media audio​