1957


My Dark Hands

Song Collection


My Dark Hands or Meine Dunklen Hände is a song cycle by Hermann Reutter setting the text of Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps.

Audio

“Lied Für Ein Dunkles Mädchen” (“Song For a Dark Girl”) (from “My Dark Hands”)
Thomas Hampson (baritone) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)2:17

Hermann Reutter

Composer

Langston Hughes

Poet(s)/Writer(s)

“Trommel” (“Drum”) (from “My Dark Hands”)
Thomas Hampson (baritone) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)1:11

Hermann Reutter

Composer

Langston Hughes

Poet(s)/Writer(s)

Sheet Music