Neenah Public Library

African portraits, Hannibal

eng

libretto or textbibliography

cantatas

not applicable

African portraits

compact disc

34259641

Recorded live, Orchestra Hall, Chicago, May 1995

Hannibal

Act 1, The drum and the cross. Libation : harvest, 16th century West Africa, griot : "Dafengba!" (2:28) ; Chorus : Duwa beh (3:53) ; Attack/Subjugation (8:37) ; The middle passage (4:52) -- Act 2, The land of milk and honey. Auction : Potter's mart, Charleston, South Carolina, 1833 (2:32) ; Wailing song (Ruben Gonzales, violin) (1:14) ; Victor Nelson's cotton field, Elgin, Texas, 1940 (5:36) ; Music man, Shaw, Mississippi, Delta swamp, 1945 (3:12) ; The Three Deuces Club, 52nd Street, New York City, 1952 (10:47) ; Chorus : You can find a way (2:48) ; 400 years ago today, living inside the clear glass cell, Bensonhurst, New York, 1989 (1:52) ; Redemption (3:01) ; Epilogue, kora (1:04)