New Music: “Cycles of My Being”

Lyrics: Terrance Hayes
Composer: Tyshawn Sorey
Tenor: Lawrence Brownlee (Recital at Carnegie Hall, Tuesday, April 24, 2018 7:30 PM Zankel Hall)

Here is some new music that is focused on hymns and spirituals in the concert hall. Plus, Lawrence Brownlee has a beautiful voice.

(Videos are from NPR. The top one features an arrangement of the African-American spiritual “There’s a Man Going ‘Round Taking Names” with the jazz pianist Jason Moran, from Seth Coulter Walls, “An Opera Star’s Song Cycle Conjures a Black Man’s Life in America,” New York Times Online, February 16, 2017; the second one is an NPR “Tiny Desk Concert.” See details at Lawrence Browlee’s “Tiny Desk Concert” on NPR.)