Courtney Bryan - Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord

Bryan recorded this for WWOZ during the pandemic, on April 9, 2021. In 2023 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, usually referred to as the "genius" award. Besides her career in music, Bryan is a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. A New Orleans native, she is “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (New York Times). Her music is in conversation with various musical genres, including jazz and other types of experimental music, as well as traditional gospel, spirituals, and hymns. Focusing on bridging the sacred and the secular, Bryan's compositions explore human emotions through sound, confronting the challenge of notating the feeling of improvisation.