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Parnassus Records is pleased to a follow-up to their acclaimed InchBlack SwansInch anthology, which returned to international availability extraordinarily rare early recordings of African-American opera singers. The new , InchBlack Swans at Mid-CenturyInch, contains over two hours of music and focuses on Black artists of the mid-twentieth century. Album Tracks 1. Handel Messiah-Rejoice Greatly 2. Bishop Home, Sweet Home 3. Anon. Every Time I Feel the Spirit 4. Kern Show Boat-Old Man River 5. Brahms Alto Rhapsody / Carol Brice, Contralto 6. Mortensen Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (Frost) 7. Brockway (Arr.) The Nightingale, 'One Morning in May' 8. Burleigh (Arr.) Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 9. Johnson (Arr.) Hold on 10. Jordan (Arr.) His Name So Sweet 11. Mortensen Adventures of Isabel 12. Rossini Stabat Mater-Fac Ut Portem 13. Hayes (Arr.) Sister Mary 14. Hayes (Arr.) Little Boy 15. Bachelet Chère Nuit 16. Sauguet Berceuse Creole 17. Delibes Lakmé-Ou Va la Jeune Indoue (InchBell SongInch) 18. Disc 2 Shulamit Ran O, the Chimneys (Poems By Nelly Sachs) 19. Brahms Von Ewiger Liebe 20. Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre 21. Mussorgsky The Seminarianist 22. Gershwin Porgy and Bess-My Man's Gone Now 23. Dawson Talk About a Child That Do Love Jesus 24. Johnson (Arr.) Honor! Honor! 25. Foster Old Folks at Home 26. Mozart Le Nozze Di Figaro-Dove Sono 27. Verdi Aida-Quest' Asissa 28. Verdi Aida-E in Uo Potere Lo Sto! in Poser Di Lei! 29. Gershwin Porgy and Bess-Summertime 30. Daugherty (Arr.) Sea Shanties Rio Grande 31. Blow Ye Winds 32. Across the Western Ocean 33. Mobile Bay 34. Shenandoah 35. Carpenter When I Bring You Coloured Toys
