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Anthony Branker, Imagine - What Place Can Be for Us - A Suite in Ten Movements 


101 The Door of No Return.flac
102 Sundown Town.flac
103 I, Too, Sing America.flac
104 Indivisible.flac
105 We Went Where the Wind Took Us.flac
106 What Place Can Be for Us.flac
107 Sunken Place.flac
108 The Trail of Tears to Standing Rock.flac
109 Sanctuary City.flac
110 Placeless.flac
Anthony Branker, Imagine - What Place Can Be for Us - A Suite in Ten Movements.nzb
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Ma Rainey channeled music as her ritual of "singing to understand life." Congressman John Lewis leveraged music towards the "good trouble" he created fighting for civil rights in an uncivil land. Anthony Branker understands music as the calculus of his life's work—the art of weaving words and sound into transcendent tapestries that explore the rich, complex, and nuanced aspects of intolerance, beauty, prejudice, spirituality, gender, equality and social justice.

The composite of this artistry exists within the remarkable circumference of his achievements, from conducting extended form compositions by Terence Blanchard and Duke Ellington, to Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities grant awards, and decades of accomplished musical scholarship and academic leadership at Princeton and currently Rutgers University. As composer, arranger, educator, scholar, conductor, and performer, Branker has traveled the world in service of blending a meticulous study of melody and rhythm, with the gravity of critical stories that have shaped his life and the world around him. 




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