The Philadelphia Orchestra will feature the works of George Gershwin, Anna Clyne, and William Grant Still at Verizon Hall Oct. 6-8. With Still’s Symphony N. 4 (also known as “autochthonous”), the ...
The latest mammoth release by Igor Levit, a new symphonic work by John Luther Adams and music by William Grant Still are among the highlights. “The March to Liberation” offers a rarity that should be ...
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, 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” ...