The Reaction
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This recording of art songs by Black composers includes many world premieres.

This album of art songs seeks to center a repertoire that is often left on the margins and neglected on concert programs. The Reaction charts new territory in recording many previously unrecorded works by Black composers for the low male voice, and showcases a wide range of languages and styles that exist for this genre. Bass-baritone Carl DuPont is equally engaged in performing, teaching, and research. He has sung a wide range of roles with the Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Carolina, Opera Company of Brooklyn, and Cedar Rapids Opera, among many others. DuPont is a graduate of Eastman, Indiana University and the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. He is on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His collaborator, pianist Gregory Thompson, is on the faculty at Winston-Salem State University. He has performed as a solo and collaborative artist in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is head of staff pianists for the University of Miami at Salzburg Summer Program.
Contents:
Dolores White, composer
Sometimes I'm Not Myself
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Dolores White, composer
Bed Bug
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Jacqueline Hairston, composer
The Foolish Heart
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Robert Owen, composer
Three Lieder für Bariton und Klavier, Op. 20
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Marques L.A. Garrett, composer
selections from A Love Cycle
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Jacqueline Hairston, composer
She Sat Down For Freedom
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Carlos Simon, Jr., composer
Nightfall
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Matthew Taylor, composer
The Reaction
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Howard Swanson, composer
A Death Song
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Lena McLin, composer
Day
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Marques L.A. Garrett, composer
Compensation
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

George Walker, composer
Take, O Take Those Lips Away
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)
v Eugene Hancock, composer
Absalom
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)

Eugene Hancock, composer
Nunc Dimittis
Carl DuPont (bass-baritone); Gregory Thompson (piano)
Review:
"This work by Dupont and Thompson serves as an introduction to a rich, though neglected, area of art song repertory by past and present black American composers…A variety of styles are represented…It is difficult to pick a standout song from such a rich collection. Dolores White's Sometimes I'm Not Myself is a striking opener with a darkly chromatic turn, countered by her jazzy Bedbug; Swanson's Death Song is haunting, with its chromatic alterations of the blues scale. I want to hear more from the young Matthew Taylor, whose ambitious unaccompanied song The Reaction expresses fear and panic with extended vocal techniques. This is a special album that bring deserved attention to these fine composers. If you enjoy art song, this is not something to miss." (American Record Guide)