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Jean Bernard Cerin, baritone
Nicholas Mathew, keyboards
Jeremy Garcia, guitar
Excerpt from the documentary, Lisette (2022)
Saint Domingue & France
Lisette quitté la plaine (c. 1757)
Text attributed to Duvivier de la Mahautiѐre
Music attributed to Antoine Albanese (1729-1800)
Chanson nѐgre from Les Consolations des misères de ma vie (1781)
Text attributed to Duvivier de la Mahautiѐre
Music by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
Haïti
Dans le coeur de Marie from the opera, L'Entrée du Roi, en sa capitale (1818)
Text by Juste Chanlatte (1766–1828)
Music by W.A. Mozart
Hymne Haytiene (1804)
Text by Juste Chanlatte
Music by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
The United States of America
Le Bananier, chanson nègre, op. 5p. 5 (1846)
By Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869)
Zélim to quitté la plaine from Creole Songs from New Orleans in Negro Dialect (1902)
Text adapted from Duvivier de la Mahautiѐre
Collected and arranged by Clara Gottschalk Peterson (1837–1910)
Dialogue d’amour from Six Creole Folk Songs (1921)
Collected and arranged by Maude Cuney Hare (1874–1936)
Lizette, ma chêre amie from Five Creole Songs (1942)
Collected and arranged by Camille Nickerson (1888–1982)
Haïti
Étude-Méringue en sol mineur
By Édmond Saintonge (1861-1907)
Ave Maria
Text: Traditional Christian Prayer
Music by Louis Borno (1865–1942)
Sobo
By Ludovic Lamothe (1882–1953)
Lisette (1929)
Text attributed to Duvivier de la Mahautiѐre
Music by Ludovic Lamothe
