Agave Baroque Reginald Mobley ALTO Aaron Westman VIOLIN Henry Lebedinsky HARPSICHORD William Skeen VIOLA DA GAMBA AND VIOLONCELLO Kevin Cooper CLASSICAL AND BAROQUE GUITAR Anna Washburn VIOLIN AND VIOLA Natalie Carducci VIOLIN Katherine Kyme VIOLA
Reginald Mobley COUNTERTENOR
Aaron Westman VIOLIN
Henry Lebedinsky HARPSICHORD
William Skeen VIOLA DA GAMBA AND VIOLONCELLO
Kevin Cooper CLASSICAL & BAROQUE GUITARIST
Anna Washburn VIOLIN AND VIOLA
Natalie Carducci VIOLIN
Katherine Kyme VIOLA
Programme
Manuel de Zumaya Como aunque culpa
Anonymous Canción a 3
Esteban Salas Taedat animam meam
Anonymous Trio sonata in F
Esteban Salas ¡Tu, mi Díos, entre pajas!
INTERMISSION
José Mauricio Nuñes Garcia Te, Christe, solum novimus
Justin Holland Dream Faces
Florence B. Price
Five Folksongs in Counterpoint
Clementine
Shortnin’ Bread. Allegro
Scott Joplin (arr. Lebedinsky) Bethena, a concert waltz
Price (arr. Agave Baroque)
Resignation
Song to the Dark Virgin
The White Rose
Tobacco
Out of the South Blew a Wind
Sympathy
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Incomparable countertenor Reginald L. Mobley joins Agave to celebrate Black and Latino composers from North and South America, centering on the United States, and with stops in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
The third recording project in their ongoing collaboration to present music by brilliant, yet underrepresented composers explores how the blending of European, African, and indigenous styles created uniquely American sounds through the ages. Among the many treasures of the repertoire are an unexpected and sentimental side of Scott Joplin, a song by Black American guitar virtuoso Justin Holland, two works by the earliest known Cuban classical composer, and a set of songs by the extraordinary Florence B. Price, who seamlessly blended Romantic art song and Spirituals into a sound all her own.