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Three untitled movements; En Rouge et Noir means literally “in red and black”. While this can be interpreted many ways, this 17 minute work by renowned “Third Stream” composer David Baker explores both “red-hot” and “black” influences in three…

Japanese composer Karen Tanaka's "Enchanted Forest" was composed for horn and piano. The work is in three movements:

1. In the Woods
2. Whiispers in the Wind
3. Enchanged Forest

The work was commissed by and written for Nobuaki Fukukawa and…

Black composer Quincy C. Hilliard is a composer and professor in the School of Music & Performing Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. As written about "Encore" on the publisher's website: "Written as Concerto for Young Artist(s) and…

Black composer and avant-garde jazz clarinetist Alvin Batiste composed "Episodes" for clarinet and piano.

Black horn player and compooser Usamah Mustafa composed "Evening Reveries" for horn and piano. Learn more about the composer on this Facebook interview with Houghton Horns.

Mexican composer José L Elizondo composed "Excursión a la Montaña" in dedication to flutist Kim Sopata. As described on the composer's website: "Excursión a la Montaña tells the story of the first excursion of a child to the top of a little mountain.…

Black composer Andre Myers' "Falling Skyward" was composed in 2001 for solo flute.

The title Fanmi Imèn is Haitian Creole for Maya Angelou’s famous work, Human Family. Both the musical and literary poems acknowledge differences within mankind, either due to ethnicity, background, or geography, but Angelou’s refrain: “we are more…

Black composer Freddie Bryant's "Fantasia on a Theme by Charlie Haden": 'For Turiya' was originally recorded in 1996. As indicated in linernotes on the composer's website, "It is a through-composed piece using the theme from Charlie Haden’s beautiful…

A musical description of fire and its hunger. It begins as embers of coal and wood glowing with radiant danger-a soft sustained and ominous sound. Slowly, fuel is added to the potential of flame and slowly catches fire, one flicker at a time until it…