The concert is a collaboration with the Dona Ana County chapter of the NAACP, and its president, Dr. Bobbie Green, will read poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar that Still included in the score of the ...

Join Boston University music professor Jeremy Yudkin as he previews the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Aug. 17 program at Tanglewood. The concert opens with "Threnody: In Memory of Jean Sibelius" by ...

CT symphony orchestras celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with patriotic performances ...

Autochthonous: adjective. ”indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists.” In program notes for his Symphony No. 4, American composer William Grant Still wrote that the work’s title, ...

William Grant Still, considered the dean of African American composers, is best known as the first to have a symphony performed by a major symphony orchestra. Until 1950, his 1930 “Afro-American” ...

A brief chronology / Carolyn L. Quin -- Contributed essays. The formative years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895-1911 / Willard B. Gatewood ; "Dean of Afro-American composers" or ...

Every year the Sphinx Orchestra gets together on the occasion of the Sphinx Competition, in Detroit. It's a competition meant to encourage young African American and Latino musicians. From the concert ...

Composer William Grant Still was the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (1936, Los Angeles Philharmonic). The first to conduct an orchestra in the deep South (1955, New Orleans ...

Gateways Radio honors the voices and vision of musicians of African descent. Tonight, hear compositions shaped by the Black church tradition, featuring William Grant Still’s “Sunday Symphony.” That's ...

St. Bernards "Moments of Remembrance" on Thursday, Dec. 11, allows anyone a chance to honor and remember a loved one who has passed.

A children's story for orchestra, women's trio, and a narrator, this piece was written in order to impress upon children the need for human understanding. Verna Avery's text tells the story of a ...