Music celebrating Juneteenth, the national holiday that marks the proclamation, on June 19, 1865, of the liberation of the Black people of Texas, the last in the former slave states to achieve emancipation.
1-3 p.m. EDT
1700-1900 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org
Scott Joplin: “Treemonisha” Overture
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra/Rick Benjamin
(New World)
Aaron Copland: “A Lincoln Portrait”
James Earl Jones, narrator
Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz
(Delos)
William Levi Dawson: “Negro Folk Symphony”
Seattle Symphony/Roderick Cox
(Seattle Symphony Media)
Undine Smith Moore: “Afro-American Suite”
Laurel Zucker, flute
Jia-Mo Chen, cello
John Cozza, piano
(Cantilena)
Florence Beatrice Price: Symphony No. 3 in C minor
Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Jessie Montgomery: “Banner”
Catalyst Quartet
(Azica)
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