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Spirituals

Jon Manasse, clarinet
Concertante Chamber Players

[Audio of entire piece]
1. Melody Over a Drone I ("O Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn")1:43[Audio excerpt]
2. Minimalist Tendencies ("Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child")1:37[Audio excerpt]
3. Amazing Grace Notes: Homage to John Harbison ("Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen") 1:16[Audio excerpt]
4. Call and Response ("Go Down, Moses")2:24[Audio excerpt]
5. Two Pentatonic Fragments ("Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Study War No More")1:46[Audio excerpt]
6. Minor and Major ("This Ol' Time Religion")1:32[Audio excerpt]
7. Melody Over a Drone II ("Deep River")0:59[Audio excerpt]
8. Canons and Chorus ("Glory to That Newborn King")0:57[Audio excerpt]
9. Six-Bar Blues-Tango in 3/4 Time ("Wade in de Water")1:58[Audio excerpt]
10. Major Blues (A Blues Arrangement of "Jesus Goin' to Make Up My Dyin' Bed")2:08[Audio excerpt]
11. Homage to Ravel (An Arrangement of "Balm in Gilead")1:29[Audio excerpt]