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2021-05-08 00:04:00
Sergio A. Mims: YCA Artist Randall Goosby celebrates the music of Black classical composers for debut album "Roots" out June 25th on Decca Classics
[…] day. Jascha Heifetz’s virtuosic violin transcriptions from George Gershwin’s (1898-1937) Porgy and Bess follow, showcasing Goosby’s technical brilliance in the interpretation of American classics. William Grant Still (1895-1978), the first American composer to have an opera produced at NY City Opera, wrote his lesser-known chamber piece “Suite for Violin and Piano” in 1943, nicknamed “Mother and Child” after the work’s second movement. Each of the three movements takes its name from a sculpture: Richard Barthe’s African Dancer, Sargent Johnson’s Mother and Child, and Augusta Savage’s Gamin, each artist a notable force in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1910s-30s. Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) composed “Sonatina” in the autumn of 1893 when the composer was staying in New York City, following a return from the American Midwest. Heavily influenced by his exploration of Native American melodies and Negro Spirituals while in the United States, […]
2021-02-27 20:53:00
WaynesboroSymphonyOrchestra.org: Livestream Sunday, Feb. 28, 3 PM ET: Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Walker & William Grant Still
Please visit our website at www.wsomusic.org for the link to the livestream performance. Please join us Sunday, February 28th at 3:00 PM Via livestream link ici Program Notes PRICE: Five Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953) is considered the first black woman in the United States to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Even though her training was steeped in European tradition, Price’s music consists of mostly the American idiom while revealing her Southern roots. Her mother, a soprano and pianist, carefully guided her early musical training, and at age fourteen, she enrolled in the […]
2020-10-24 00:18:00
CPR.org: The Dean Of African-American Composers Didn’t Think He’d Be Remembered: William Grant Still At 125
William Grant Still (Courtesy of Celeste Headlee) (Celeste Headlee) Celeste Headlee hugs her grandfather William Grant Still Colorado Public Radio CPR Classical By Jen Hitt and Ella Harpstead October 22, 2020 William Grant Still thought he would be forgotten. That’s what his granddaughter, musician and journalist Celeste Headlee, told us when she spoke about her beloved grandfather- a composer whose lush, emotional music lends itself to the distinctly American sound of the early 20th century. Still’s compositions paint a landscape of the world around him, and of the musical heritage of fellow African Americans. The First African American Symphonist Take his first symphony, “Afro-American”, for example. Not only is it Still’s most famous work, it was performed by 38 orchestras in the U.S. and Europe in its first 20 years, making […]
2015-10-23 12:45:01
The parish church in Saint-Chinian, Notre-Dame-de-la-Barthe, houses a rather fine 18th century organ – fine enough to be listed as a Monument Historique , a historical monument, under the same protection as some of the most illustrious and iconic historical monuments in France, such as the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame de Paris, Versailles, the Louvre . . . The origins of the organ in Saint-Chinian are slightly mysterious. The archives show that a new organ was ordered for the parish church from a certain Louis Peyssy, organ builder in Beziers, in 1784. A major restoration of the organ was completed in 1995 by Jean-Francois Muno. During the restoration, it became apparent that the workings and pipes of the organ bear more than a passing resemblance to those of the organ in the former cathedral in Saint-Pons-de-Thomieres, which was built by Jean-Baptiste Micot, organ builder in Toulouse. Jean-Baptiste Micot started […]
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