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.
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 ...
Connecticut-born poet Katherine Garrison Chapin wrote Plain-Chant for America in collaboration with composer William Grant Still in 1941. She says their work addresses, “the gap between ...
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