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 ...

William Grant Still was one of the first African American composers to gain national recognition in classical music. He expanded what “American” sounds like by placing his heritage at the heart of his ...

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 ...

William Grant Still's granddaughter discusses how "Highway 1, USA" reflects Black life in the 1940s. Detroit Opera has opened its 2025-2026 season with a double bill titled "Highways & Valleys — Two ...

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” ...

We head to Boone, North Carolina to hear William Grant Still's Folk Song Suite in concert with the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble.

Gateways Radio celebrates music without limits. We explore the rich legacy of Black composers across the 20th century, with works by William Grant Still, Jessie Montgomery, Errollyn Wallen, and ...

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 ...

William Grant Still, the "Dean of African-American composers," is one of the most important cultural fiqures of any race or nationality in our history. He was the first to "crossover" from symphonic ...

Detroit Opera will present William Grant Still’s Highway 1 USA (above), Dec. 7–13, on a double-bill with Kurt Weill’s Down in the Valley. LA Opera photo by Cory Weaver DETROIT, Dec. 02, 2025 (GLOBE ...