Waites Ignites, Lets Little Light Shine

December 9th, 2012 Uncategorized

CELEBRATION

Kuumba piano music

Pianist Althea Waites released a new Kuumba Music CD in recent weeks featuring the world premiere recording of Curt Cacioppo’s “Philadelphia Diary” and her lustrous live performance of his “Fantasy-Choruses on This Little Light of Mine,” which he dedicated to her. The disc, entitled CELEBRATION, also includes pieces by John W. Work, Margaret Meier, Duke Ellington, and Jeremiah Evans. Available through CDBaby, Amazon.com and iTunes. To purchase the album, click here:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/altheawaites1

To read more about Waites and her collaborations with Cacioppo and other composers, visit http://africlassical.blogspot.com/2012/08/john-malveaux-professor-waites-is.html.