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
she/her/hers
Solo Bassoon
- Memory book by T.J. Anderson (Black)
- no recording available
- Colored stones by Jenni Brandon (woman)
- Faya faya faya by Mohamed Dainkeh (Black, Sierra Leone)
- Bassoon set by Adolphus Hailstork (Black)
- Jazz variations by Libby Larsen (woman)
- Ode to life by Katleho Mothae (Black, Lesotho)
- Two songs: Chegharia and Nkowa by Grace Bernard Oforka "Graciedion" (woman, Black, Benin, Nigeria)
- A march for the lynched in Africa -- They will live again by Edewede Oriwoh (woman, Black, Nigeria)
Solo Bassoon with Piano
- L'extase d'amour by H. Leslie Adams (Black)
- performed by Jordan Bak (viola version)
- Poem of love by H. Leslie Adams (Black)
- Circadia by Adrienne Albert (woman)
- performed by Christin Schillinger (tracks 1-3)
- Rusticana by Claude Arrieu (woman)
- no recording available
- Vals venezolano and Contradanza by Paquito D'Rivera (Cuba)
- Sonata by Nancy Galbraith (woman)
- Sonata by Crystal Godfrey Lapoint (woman)
- Full moon in the city by Libby Larsen (woman)
- performed by George Sakakeeny (string orchestra version)
- Concertino by Francisco Mignone (Brazil)
- performed by Noel Devos (string orchestra version)
- Translations by Natalie Moller (woman)
- Mathematics by Alyssa Morris (woman)
- Aubade by Kenichi Nishizawa (Japan)
- Tafika tu by Peter Nyabuto (Kenya)
- Romance by Elizabeth Raum (woman)
- performed by Lin Foulk (played on horn)
- Elegy for innocence by Jeff Scott (Black)
- Red Maple by Joan Tower (woman)
- Concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (woman)
Chamber Music with Bassoon
- Ritmo Indio by Louis W. Ballard (Cherokee, Quapaw) for woodwind quintet
- Umoja: the first day of Kwanzaa by Valerie Coleman (Black) for woodwind quintet
- Duo sonata (2 bassoons) by Sofia Gubaidulina (woman)