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FLORENCE B. PRICE · Hold Fast to Dreams
 
 

TED BLACK, tenor · SASCHA EL MOUISSI, piano









RELEASE DATE 22 MAY 2026  

   


Songs by FLORENCE BEATRICE SMITH PRICE (1887-1953)


1 The Island of my dreams (1928)
T: Ogden Nash 02:21

2 Hold fast to Dreams (1945)
T: Langston Hughes 01:52

3 They lie, they lie ((1946)
T: David Morton 01:55

4 Song of the Dark Virgin (1941)
T: Langston Hughes 01:54

5 Night (1946)
T: Louise C. Wallace 01:56

6 Bright be the place (1942)
T: Lord Byron 01:54

7 Lethe (1941)
T: Georgia Douglas Johnson 01:08

8 There be None (1942)
T: Lord Byron 01:59

9 Love-in-a-mist (1930)
T: Mary Rolofson 02:01

10 The superstitious ghost (1946)
T: Arthur Guiterman 02:28

11 Ham & Eggs (undated)
T: Carl S Junge 01:24

12 The moon bridge (undated)
T: Mary Rolofson 02:01

13 Dawn's awakening (1936)
T: James Joseph Burke 02:18

14 Day dawns, from Three short songs (undated)
T: Louise C. Wallace 01:09

15 The crescent moon, from: Three short songs (undated)
T: Louise C. Wallace 00:34

16 The broken bowl, from: Three short songs (undated)
T: Wesley Custright 01:30

17 Because (undated)
T: Paul Laurence Dunbar 02:02

18 Interim (undated)
T: Virginia Houston 02:21

19 My little dreams (undated)
T: Georgia Douglas Johnson 01:15

20 We have tomorrow (undated)
T: Langston Hughes 00:56

21 An April day (1949)
T: Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. 01:31

22 Beside the sea (undated)
T: Paul Laurence Dunbar 02:05

23 God gives me you (1946)
T: Nora Connelly 02:03

24 The glory of the day was in her face (1935)
T: James Weldon Johnson 02:03

25 A white rose (1932)
T: John Boyle O'Reilly 01:14

26 I grew a rose (undated)
T: Paul Laurence Dunbar 03:17

27 Sunset (1938)
T: Odessa P. Elder 01:39
28 Song is so old (undated)
T: Hermann Hagedorn 01:48
29 Travel's end (1933)
T: May Folwell Hoisington 02:19
30 Tobacco (T: Graham Lee Hemminger) , From: Four Encore Songs (1935) 00:32
31 A flea and a fly (T: Ogden Nash), From: Four Encore Songs (1935) 00:20
32 "Come, come", said Tom's father (T: Thomas Moore ) From: Four Encore Songs (1935) 00:30
33 Song of the open road (T: Ogden Nash), From: Four Encore songs (1935) 00:39
34 Little things (1946)
T: James Stephens 02:24

TOTAL 57:41

TED BLACK Tenor
SASCHA EL MOUISSI Piano

Recording Location: VIII 2023, Köln, WDR, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal

Executive producers: Michael Breugst & Dr. Andreas von Imhoff (Avi-Service for music)
Recording Producer: Anton Langer, WDR

Piano Technician: (Piano Schick) Steinway D Konzertflügel

Publishers: Linley Music House, Chicago 1928 (Tr. 1); G. Schirmer Inc., New York, 1941 (Tr. 4); Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, New York, 1946 (Negro Art Songs: Album by Contemporary Composers) (Tr. 5); Gamble Hinged Music Co., Chicago, 1930 (Tr 12); Handy Bros., New York, 1949 (OCLC 82709930) (Tr. 21); 44 Art Songs and Spirituals, ClarNan Editions, Fayetteville, AR, 2015 (OCLC 902815587) (Tr. 25; 30 - 33);
Unknown publishers/Manuscripts: Tracks 2 - 3; 6 - 11; 13 - 20; 22 - 24; 26-29; 34

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