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Season 10

Repertoire

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

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
Coleman, Valerie
  • Danza de la Mariposa - flute
  • Fanmi Imen - flute
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 No. 1 - viola
  • Rhapsody No. 1 - 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​
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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
Brown, Charles
  • Song Without Words - 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.
  • ... all that is good ... - soprano, piano*
  • Conduct thy footsteps..- soprano, piano
  • Her Phantom Happiness - soprano, piano quintet
  • How Could I Know - soprano, piano
  • In Between the Moon and Us - soprano, piano
  • Oh, Freedom! - spoken word, voice, flute, viola, cello*​
  • p e r d u e (Maram al-Masri) - soprano, piano
  • Sonnet LXXXI - soprano, piano
  • Three Adinkra Miniatures - voice, piano*
  • To Curse or Not to Curse - soprano, piano*
  • untitled (I can't evoke his name) - voice*
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
Harper, Joi
  • Aspirations and Sorrows - soprano, piano, string ensemble
​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​ ​​

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*
  • …on top of a frosted hill… - cello & 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​​
​Walker, George
  • Cello Sonata, arr. for viola - viola, piano​​ ​

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
  • Somnyama - flute, viola, harp*
  • 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​
Skye, 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 
​Cameron White, Clarence
  • Spiritual from “From the Cotton Fields” Op. 18, arr. for string quartet
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
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​
Price, Florence B.
  • Five Folksongs in Counterpoint
  • Negro 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
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mixed chamber music

​​Baker, Renée C.
  • Black Woman Tears - mezzo soprano, violin, viola, cello, e-guitar, piano, vibraphone*​
  • 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
Joachim, Nathalie
  • Seen - woodwind quintet
  • Fanm D'ayiti (excerpts) - voice, flute, electronics and string quartet
Green, Anthony R.
  • 3 Controlled Improvisations: Outrage, Perplexed, Protesting - violin, viola, sax, double bass* 
  • It All Must Be Done in Darkness - open instrumentation ​*
  • 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
Lancaster, Yaz
  • Articulated Objects - mezzo soprano, violin, viola, cello, e-guitar, piano, vibraphone
León, Tania
  • De Memorias - woodwind quintet​​
Loggins-Hull, Allison
  • The Pattern - flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, piano 
  • Shine - flute, viola, piano, soprano
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​
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