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Internationally acclaimed mezzo Raehann Bryce-Davis (Metropolitan Opera) releases her debut album Stand The Storm, including the work "Unspoken (Erola)" by composer Jake Landau and poet Leslie Andrea Williams.

Stand The Storm also features music by Kamala Sankaram, Rene Orth, Melissa Dunphy, Maria Thompson Corley, Paul Moravec, Tariq Al-Sabir, Timothy Amukele, Peter Ashbourne, Jacqueline Hairston, and more. Featured collaborative artists on the album include South African pianist Jeanne-Minette Cilliers, American violinist Reuben Kebede, South African cellist Thapelo Masita, American Percussionist Christian McGhee, and the Juilliard Ivalas String Quartet. Donations to the album accepted here.

Read more about Landau's piece "Unspoken (Erola)" here.

For their debut album "In This Short Life", mezzo Devony Smith and pianist Danny Zelibor have commissioned 10 minutes of new music by composer Jake Landau. The two resultant artsongs, "Sew My True Love (Jubilee)" and "The Sake Of You", were recorded in October 2024 for release in 2025. The songs are composed on text by Appalachian folk singer Jean Ritchie for mezzo, drone, and piano.

“In This Short Life” will feature compositions by Mark Adamo, Grammy award-winner Jennifer Higdon, David Lang, Eve Beglarian, B.E. Boykin, Jake Landau, Will Liverman, and Benjamin Wenzelberg. Among the many wonderful poets represented are Maya Angelou, Anne Sexton, Sarah Teasdale, Tennessee Williams, Emily Dickinson, and in two of the pieces, the composers themselves. Devony and Danny are thrilled that all of these works are receiving their first studio recordings - and especially to have the chance to commission brand new music by Jake Landau and Will Liverman specifically for this album.