Based on three poems by Langston Hughes, the American poet who spearheaded the Harlem Renaissance, these contemporary art songs by Rosephanye Powell are an important and welcome addition to the modern vocal

This beautiful art-song collection is named after Phillis Wheatley, America's first female African-American poet, whose poems were an inspiration to George Washington as well as many other African-American

Four art songs bestow honor and tribute to African American music and educators. The title, Then, Here and Now, refers to the spiritual's use during slavery (then) and its relevance today (here and