After years of being confined to January’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and February’s Black History Month, the music of Black American composers increasingly is being heard year-round alongside “standard” repertory. In that spirit, this Black History Month program features works of Black composers along with music of their White contemporaries.
7-9 p.m. EST
2200-0000 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org
William Grant Still: “American Suite”
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Avlana Eisenberg
(Naxos)
Aaron Copland: “Billy the Kid” Suite
New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein
(Sony Classical)
George Walker: “Lilacs”
Latonia Moore, soprano
Cleveland Orchestra/Frans Welser-Möst
(Cleveland Orchestra)
Samuel Barber: “Knoxville, Summer of 1915”
Julia Bullock, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra/Christian Reif
(Nonesuch)
Florence Price: Piano Concerto in D minor
Michelle Cann, piano
New York Youth Symphony/Michael Repper
(Avie)
Amy Beach: Theme and Variations, Op. 80
Eugenia Zukerman, flute
Shanghai Quartet
(Delos)
Jessie Montgomery: “Rounds” for piano & string orchestra
Awadagin Pratt, piano
A Far Cry
(New Amsterdam)
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