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New Music from Diverse Voices!
A guide to new music purchased as part of the 2021 effort to diversify the Music Library Collection.
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Research and Instruction Librarian for Music & Fine Arts
Karen Olson
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Solo Oboe
- Diaphonic suite no. 1 by Ruth Crawford (woman)
- Piper of dreams by Ruth Gipps (woman)
- Collision etudes by Alyssa Morris (woman)
- Like lightnings by Hilary Tann (woman)
- Upingos by Carlos Chávez (Mexico)
Solo Oboe with Piano
- Reflections by Adrienne Albert (woman)
- performed by Doug Masek (saxophone version)
- Kensington Gardens suite by Ruth Gipps (woman)
- Sea-shore suite by Ruth Gipps (woman)
- Sonata no. 1 by Ruth Gipps (woman)
- Three miniatures by Helen Grime (woman)
- Suite in B by Ulysses Kay (Black)
- Monk's oboe by Libby Larsen (woman)
- performed by Jared Hauser (string quartet accompaniment version)
- Four personalities by Alyssa Morris (woman)
- Sonata for oboe by Brian Raphael Nabors (Black)
- Sonata for oboe, op. 94 by Kenichi Nishizawa (Japan)
- no recording available
- Incantation and Dance by William Grant Still (Black)
- Songs for oboe and piano by William Grant Still (Black)
- Rondo for oboe and piano by Germaine Tailleferre (woman)
Solo English Horn with Piano
- Pietà by Ulysses Kay (Black)
- Romance in D-flat by H. Leslie Adams (Black)
Chamber Music with Oboe or English Horn
- Cake dance suite by Elizabeth Aitken (woman) for 2 oboes and English horn
- no recording available
- Talisker by Elizabeth Aitken (woman) for 2 oboes and English horn
- no recording available
- Ritmo Indio by Louis W. Ballard (Cherokee, Quapaw) for woodwind quintet
- Umoja: the first day of Kwanzaa by Valerie Coleman (Black) for woodwind quintet
- Songs: 12 quatrains from the Rubaiyat by Dorothy Rudd Moore (woman, Black) for mezzo-soprano and oboe
- no recording available