Spirituals
Jon Manasse, clarinet
Concertante Chamber Players
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1. Melody Over a Drone I ("O Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn")
1:43
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2. Minimalist Tendencies ("Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child")
1:37
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3. Amazing Grace Notes: Homage to John Harbison ("Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen")
1:16
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4. Call and Response ("Go Down, Moses")
2:24
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5. Two Pentatonic Fragments ("Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Study War No More")
1:46
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6. Minor and Major ("This Ol' Time Religion")
1:32
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7. Melody Over a Drone II ("Deep River")
0:59
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8. Canons and Chorus ("Glory to That Newborn King")
0:57
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9. Six-Bar Blues-Tango in 3/4 Time ("Wade in de Water")
1:58
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10. Major Blues (A Blues Arrangement of "Jesus Goin' to Make Up My Dyin' Bed")
2:08
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11. Homage to Ravel (An Arrangement of "Balm in Gilead")
1:29
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