Sassy Cook - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song TitleSassy Cook - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):T. J. (Thomas Jefferson) Anderson Jr.
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Harryette Mullen
Author Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; Woman; POC; Black (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Abstracts; Ballrooms; Before; Birds; Bumping; Chitterlings; Consonance; Cooks; Cotillions; Crows; Eating; Food; Ganders; Geese; Hawkins; Ignoring; Interested; Jazz; Low; Pidgin; Pinches; Quadrilles; Rubber Chickens; Sassy; Sauces; Skin; Skinning; Squalid; Squandering; Standing; Stepping; Stream of Consciousness; Studying; Talking; Tracks; Uptown; Walking; Word Play
First Linesauce squandering sassy cook (Search)
Year of composition 1994 (Search) Circa
Larger Work7 Cabaret Songs (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source (Search)
Catalog DesignationNo. 6 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: Ab3 - D5 (Search)
Dedicated ToWilliam Grant Still (Search)
Premiered ByNnenna Freelon (Search)
Commissioned ByMallarme Chamber Players for Nnenna Freelon with assistance by the North Carolina Arts Council (Search)
NotesPremiered September 16, 1995; Nnenna Freelon and the Mallarme Chamber Players; Wright State University, Dayton, OH (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceN.Y.: American Composers' Edition, Inc. (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceJazz vocalist, flute, viola, cello, and piano (Search)
Sources CitedAfrican Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
ContributorDr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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