The concert is a collaboration with the Dona Ana County chapter of the NAACP, and its president, Dr. Bobbie Green, will read poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar that Still included in the score of the ...

The Boston Chamber Symphony has announced its upcoming concert featuring world and Boston-area premieres on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 7:30 PM at Grace Episcopal Church in Newton. Thanks to generous ...

William Grant Still’s ancestors were plantation slaves, working the fields of Mississippi, far from the concert stages of New York and Los Angeles, where he would rise as the preeminent African ...

The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra will hold a special performance this weekend in celebration of Black History Month, combining live orchestral music with storytelling and a program highlighting ...

Here's something Houstonians don't normally experience in our typical year-round, mercury-raising climate: all four seasons. This weekend, get a dose of each quarter of Mother Nature's beauty during ...

In 1954, American composer William Grant Still traveled to Bates to accept an honorary Doctor of Letters degree for creating music that placed him “among the leaders in interracial influence.” Seventy ...

It's poetry in motion as co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies explore a wonderfully dramatic set of music including Beethoven's "Leonore Overture No. 3," William Grant Still's "Poem for Orchestra, ...

American composer and conductor William Grant Still (1895-1978) was born in Mississippi and became the first Black person to conduct a professional orchestra in the United States. Among his ...

UA Little Rock Professor of Music Linda Holzer has spent a good portion of her academic career exploring the work of two Arkansas composers, Florence Price and William Grant Still. Holzer played Still ...