Composer William Grant Still is seen in 1949. Still’s music will be played at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Tanglewood this summer. Jean Sibelius, Swedish-speaking Finnish composer and ...
A brief chronology / Carolyn L. Quin -- Contributed essays. The formative years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895-1911 / Willard B. Gatewood ; "Dean of Afro-American composers" or ...
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” ...
Essays about the Composer -- Carrie Still Shepperson: The Hollows of Her Footsteps -- In My Father's House -- My Life as a Composer's Daughter -- From Composer to Composition: The Visionary Path -- ...
We head to Boone, North Carolina to hear William Grant Still's Folk Song Suite in concert with the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble.