ROCHELLE SENNET: "Bach to Black," Volume 3 - excerpts 

1) J.S. Bach: French Suite No. 6 in E-Major, BWV817: "Allemande"
2) (@ 02:27): Adolphus Hailstork: "David," from "Five Friends Suite" (1977)
3) (@ 05:00): James Lee III: "Behold a Sea of Glass" from "Window to Eternity's Threshold" (2018)
Rochelle Sennett, piano
from Albany TROY1965
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Pianist Rochelle Sennet says, in her introduction, that this third volume of Bach to Black: Suites for Piano, (Volume 1: TROY1869-71; Volume 2: TROY1910-12) represents her continuing interest in performing suites and multi-movement works by Black composers in combination with the suites of Johann Sebastian Bach. This volume contains world premiere recordings of suites by Adolphus Hailstork and James Lee III as well as Black women composers Margaret Bonds, Montague Ring, Nkeiru Okoye, and Betty Jackson King, as well as a suite by William Grant Still. Dr. Sennet has established herself as a well-known performer, teacher, and scholar, with solo performances around the United States as well as in Russia. She studied at the San Francisco Conservatory, the University of Michigan, Texas Christian University, and the University of Illinois. She is on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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