Chamber Music Piano
SKU: PR.140401320
Composed by Eubie Blake.
Edited by Lara Downes.
Arranged by Jeremy
Siskind. Sws. Score. 8
pages. Duration 3:45.
Theodore Presser Company
#140-40132. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.140401320).
ISBN
9781491134177. UPC:
680160684274. 9 x 12
inches. Key: F
major.
LOVE WILL
FIND A WAY is one of the
great hits of the 1920s
– an era of
remarkable cultural
growth giving rise to
“The Roaring
'20s,†“The
Harlem
Renaissance,†and a
fun-loving society known
for the Charleston dance
craze and the surge of
jazz into the mainstream
of American music. A song
from Shuffle Along, the
first all-Black Broadway
musical, LOVE WILL FIND A
WAY has been arranged by
pianist Jeremy Siskind
especially for Lara
Downes’ recording
that launches the Rising
Sun series.
According
to Langston Hughes, Eubie
Blake’s 1921
Shuffle Along was the
real start of the Harlem
Renaissance. In
Hughes’ words:
“Everybody was in
the audience, including
me. It gave just the
proper push, a
pre-Charleston kick, to
that Negro vogue of the
'20s that spread to
books, African sculpture,
music, and
dancing.â€As
Broadway’s first
all-Black hit musical,
with an all-star cast
including Paul Robeson
and a young Josephine
Baker, Shuffle Along ran
for an unprecedented 504
performances in New York,
then toured nationally
for three years as the
first Black musical to
play in white theaters
across the United States.
The show’s appeal
to a multi-racial
audience, and its
integration of the jazz
and Broadway communities,
not only changed the
history of the American
musical theater, but made
important strides forward
in American race
relations.Love Will Find
a Way is one of the
show’s most
popular tunes. This
intimate, pensive
arrangement by Jeremy
Siskind celebrates the
song’s centenary
by making it a love song
for our own time as much
as its own – a
reminder that no matter
how dark the path or how
gray the skies, love will
always find a way.
