Impressions

[June 11, 2020]

You can find the music here (transposed higher here) and on this page of the IMSLP. You can listen to a computer-generated recording here. If you are a singer without access to a pianist, and you would like to sing these, you can find audio files for the piano parts for both the mezzo and soprano versions (without the vocal line) here.

Alice Ruth Moore (1875-1935), the daughter of a once-enslaved mother, was born in New Orleans. She graduated from Straight University, and worked in New Orleans as an elementary school teacher. During the 1920s and 1930s Moore, who then went by the name Alice Dunbar-Nelson, was an activist for African American rights and women’s rights, appearing often as a speaker, and writing essays, reviews, and articles in newspapers, magazines, and academic journals.