LIFT: Solos for Horn by Black Composers
Composer: Various Arranger: Various
Instrumentation: Solo and Piano Instruments: French Horn, Piano
Genre: Baroque, Classical, Contemporary
Seeking to diversify horn repertoire and inspired by her students amid a global pandemic, Margaret McGillivray set out to inject beauty and justice into the world in a small way. Her frustrations soon led to:
LIFT: Solos for Horn by Black Composers
With piano accompaniment for each piece, this project culminated in 18 new arrangements or compositions for horn:
1. Friendship Source of Joy –– Ignatius Sancho/Katy Ambrose
2A. Menuetto in C –– J. Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges/Althea Talbot-Howard
2B. Menuetto in E-flat –– J. Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges/Althea Talbot-Howard
3. The American Girl –– Francis Johnson/Katy Ambrose
4. Deep River –– African American Spiritual/Samuel Coleridge-Taylor/Althea Talbot-Howard
5. Adagio Cantabile from Cinnamon Grove Suite –– R. Nathaniel Dett/Margaret McGillivray
6. Sympathy –– Florence Price/Margaret McGillivray
7. Wake Me Up –– Jasmine Barnes
8. A Stolen Moment –– Joel Collier (ASCAP)
9. Old St. John –– Mary D. Watkins
10. Stranger from the Wind –– Benjamin Horne
11. On the Uses of Quills –– Melika M. Fitzhugh
12. Eulogy –– Stewart Goodyear
13. Pan-Tones –– Mattea Williams
14. When I’m Older –– Shanyse Strickland
15. The First Solo Flight –– David A. Eastmond
16. Tango No. 3 –– Dalian Bryan
17. Dahomey Passacaglia –– Althes Talbot-Howard
18. Pesadelos 1 (Nightmare 1) –– Jeff Scott
