This week's episode takes a step away from the escapism that classical music is often associated with to highlight some works that directly interrogate race and racism in America, labor exploitation, police brutality, and gentrification. Thank you for listening.
Playlist
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Steam (Part 1) by Archie Shepp, feat. Joe Lee Wilson, with Dave Burrell, Cornell Dupree, Roland Wilson, Jimmy Garrison, Beaver Harris, Marion Brown, John Blake, Leroy Jenkins, Lakshinarayana Shankar, Ronald Li on Archie Shepp: Attica Blues (Verve) -
William Grant Still: Darker America by Westchester Symphony Orchestra, Siegfried Landau (conductor) on The Great American Composers (Menuetto Classics) -
Hannah Kendall: The Spark Catchers (Live) by Chineke! Orchestra, Kevin John Edusei (conductor) on Spark Catchers (NMC) -
Maragret Bonds: Troubled Water by Samantha Ege on Four Women: Music for Solo Piano by Price, Kaprálová, Bilsland and Bonds (Wave Theory) -
Banner by Catalyst Quartet on Jessie Montgomery: Strum: Music for Strings (Azica Records) -
Courtney Bryan: Sanctum (Live) by American Composers Orchestra, George Manahan (conductor) (self released) -
Ferguson: Summer of 2014 by Rebecca L Hargrove, Kenneth Browning, Numinous, Joseph C. Phillips Jr. (conductor) on Joseph C. Phillips Jr.: The Grey Land (New Amsterdam) -
Burn / Build by Miyamoto is Black Enough on Burn / Build (National Sawdust Tracks) -
Vigil by Zeal and Ardor on Wake of a Nation EP (MVKA) -
I First Noticed Robinson by The Crossing on Michael Gordon: Anonymous Man (Cantaloupe) -
Colonizing Space by Isaiah Robinson, Place Orchestra, feat. Saul Williams on Ted Hearne & Saul Williams: Place (New Amsterdam) -
BALDWIN by Jamila Woods, feat. Nico Segal on LEGACY! LEGACY! (Jagjaguwar) -
Steam (Part 2) by Archie Shepp, feat. Joe Lee Wilson, with Dave Burrell, Cornell Dupree, Roland Wilson, Jimmy Garrison, Beaver Harris, Marion Brown, John Blake, Leroy Jenkins, Lakshinarayana Shankar, Ronald Li on Archie Shepp: Attica Blues (Verve) -
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) by Marvin Gaye on What's Going On (Tamla) -
Requiem by Boldy James / Sterling Toles on Manger on McNichols (Sector 7G)