Trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn released the second single from his new album, a seven-song project drawing inspiration from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead and recontextualizing it through African American experiences.
TOCCATA CLASSICS will release six albums spanning classical piano music, chamber works, and duos for harp and piano, including recordings by Martin Eastick, Ferdinand Thieriot, Caspar Diethelm, and Joseph Woelfl.
Russell Gunn releases the first single from AFRIKAN-AMERIKAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, a seven-song album drawing from ancient Egyptian texts and African American experience. The album features Gunn's new sextet with saxophonist Kendrick Smith, trombonist Andre Hayward, and others.
A stellar cast brightens a Romberg favorite. Operetta, as a genre, arose in the 1850's and swelled into a widely beloved form of entertainment. In America its chief luminaries were Sigmund Romberg, Victor Herbert, and Rudolf Friml. From the 1920's to the '40's the modern musical gradually drove operettas from the stage (except for the happily undying works of Gilbert & Sullivan). And I miss them! So I greatly approve of Winter Opera's offering us this old piece.
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