Jessye Norman - Bound for the Promised Land - Import CD

Credits:

Jessye Norman

Description:

You can hear Jesse Norman sing in his later years! You can listen to former President Obama's speech! ?Live from the music festival where great soprano Jessye Norman, who died in September 2019 at the age of 74, was a guest performer three years before her death. Unfortunately, this is not a compilation of just Norman's appearance, but the entire festival, with narration and Barack Obama's speech (also read by someone else) interspersed in the middle. However, it is rare to hear Norman sing after she retired from public performance. Here she sings four songs (about 10 minutes in total), including Duke Ellington and Negro spirituals. Tobu Land System

Tracklisting:

1.Lift Every Voice and Sing
2.Art Translates, Transcends, and Transforms
3.Frederick Douglass~Act II: Scene 3
4.Work(s)~50th Anniversary of the Selma March and A More Perfect Union speeches (Barack Obama): [Excerpts]
5.Notes on the Decline of Outrage (James Dickey)~[Excerpts]
6.Wade in the Water
7.Notes on the Decline of Outrage (James Dickey)~[Excerpts]
8.A More Perfect Union (Barack Obama)~[Excerpts]
9.Come Sunday
10.Gospel Train
11.50th Anniversary of the Selma March (Barack Obama)~[Excerpts]
12.My Soul's Been Anchored
13.Statement on the Death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Senator Robert F. Kennedy)~[Excerpts]
14.Grace~Meditations
15.Notes on the Decline of Outrage (James Dickey)~[Excerpts]
16.Essays (Langston Hughes)~[Excerpts]
17.Prophets for a New Day (Margaret Walker)~[Excerpts]
18.Cantata~Toccata: Ride On King Jesus
19.Between Black and White (Henry Hugh Proctor)~[Excerpts]
20.Heaven
21.He's Got the Whole World in His Hand
22.Frederick Douglass (Dorothy Rudd Moore)~Finale of Act Ill: Scene 3
23.Voting Rights Speech to Congress, March 15, 1965 (Lyndon B. Johnson)~[Excerpts]
24.50th Anniversary of the Selma March (Barack Obama)~[Excerpts]
25.Bound for the Promised Land