VA - Thoughts & Prayers: Music by Larry Bell (2022)

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Title: Thoughts & Prayers: Music by Larry Bell
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: Albany Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 1:01:30
Total Size: 212 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Third Elegy: In Memory of K.E.O.
02. Halcyon Song
03. Nine Variations on We Shall Overcome
04. Newtown Variations
05. Prayers Book I: I. Prayer for Travon Martin
06. Prayers Book I: II. Prayer for Michael Brown
07. Prayers Book I: III. Prayer for Tamir Rice
08. Prayers Book I: IV. Prayer for Keith Harrison McLeod
09. Prayers Book I: V. Prayer for Corey Jones
10. Prayers Book I: VI. Prayer for Diana Showman
11. Prayers Book I: VII. Prayer for Laquan McDonald
12. Prayers Book I: VIII. Prayer for Christian Taylor
13. Prayers Book I: IX. Prayer for Zachary Hammond
14. Prayers Book I: X. Prayer for Cameron Tillman
15. Prayers Book I: XI. Prayer for Samuel DuBose
16. Prayers Book I: XII. Prayer for Eric Garner
17. Domenica a Filicudi
18. A Postcard from Ukraine

Thoughts and Prayers is an album of tributes that draw upon composer Larry Bell's personal, social, national, and international awareness. The music is drawn from a solemn personal conviction and desire to preserve the lives of others in our memory. It is also a simple act of bearing witness to events that may be all too soon forgotten or too painful to contemplate. Bell offers four works for solo piano interspersed with two works for soprano, cello/viola, and piano. Award-winning composer Larry Bell's music has been commissioned and performed by a distinguished array of musicians, ensembles, and orchestras. He has taught at The Juilliard School, the Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and the Berklee College of Music. He is joined on this recording by mezzo-soprano Jennifer Webb, cellist Sam Ou, pianist Deborah Nemko, and violist David Wallace.