- Casséus’ student and interpreter Marc Ribot notes that this composition shows the influence of stride piano, as well as jazz harmonies.1
- When Casséus moved to New York in 1946, it was because he wanted to meet the great stride pianist Fats Waller. Unfortunately, Waller died before Casséus could meet him.
- This is one of several works Casséus recorded himself in 1954 in an album for Folkways Records entitled Haitian Dances. In that album’s original liner notes, Carol Capraro writes, “Romance portrays her [Haiti’s] womanly plaint at losing love to war.”
Sources
- Marc Ribot, “Frantz Casséus,” Bomb No. 87 (January 1, 2003), accessed June 30, 2021, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/frantz-Casséus/.
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