Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
Pianist Elizabeth Newkirk has come up with a wonderful idea in juxtaposing piano arrangements of three large-scale interwar orchestral pieces. The three substantial movements making
In 1974 Columbia Masterworks, in association with the Afro-American Music
Cedille Records intends its African Heritage Symphonic Series as a follow-up to CBS Records’ Black Composers Series from the 1970s, and I’m happy to say
William Grant Still’s Fourth and Fifth symphonies are saddled with bombastic and ridiculous titles that have little or nothing to do with the musical reality
Why is it that William Grant Still’s music still lacks consistent advocacy by a major record label? Chandos recorded two symphonies, and here and there
It’s a national disgrace that there hasn’t been a complete cycle of the symphonic music of William Grant Still. It’s disgraceful not because Still was
American composer William Grant Still’s chamber music naturally is of a more intimate, inward style than his better known symphonies (such as the “Afro-American”). This
The hard-to-blend association of violin and piano has often been considered by American composers a good opportunity to display their imagination and craft, whatever their
