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6 Sorrow Songs – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
The Mindlessness of it All – Malcolm J. Solomon
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6 Songs – Florence Price
And Then …  – David Baker
 
The Song Also Rises is a performance of music by black composers. The Album was recorded in Tacoma, USA, and released in August 2025. This performance brings the complete album to a live UK concert setting.

The Song Also Rises is as literal an album  as it is a play on words, an overdue elevation of forgotten or underperformed (recently discovered) masterworks from composers of the past and present who share lived experiences, social conditions, and an innate ability to integrate musical stylings of their time that continue to provide the foundation for music being written in the classical tradition for the 21st century. Watts and Davenport rise to the musical occasion by performing on the shoulders of luminaries Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Florence Price, David Baker, and Malcolm Solomon. Between the four composers, listeners are privy to the musical and social conversations from people of African descent spanning 150 years. These musical conversations – reflecting the cyclical nature of society – fuse Negro spirituals, romanticism, and post modernism with poetry in a manner that gives listeners an unseen and perhaps, unheard hope for a future that forges a new song/social cycle. One that reveres the once despised. One that honors the once disdained and elevates the once downtrodden.
Joshua Thompson