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 ...

Autochthonous: adjective. ”indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists.” In program notes for his Symphony No. 4, American composer William Grant Still wrote that the work’s title, ...

William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1, Afro-American Symphony (1929-30) Among the first composers to recognize the expressive potential of jazz in the 1920s was Austro-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff.

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” ...

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 ...

Every year the Sphinx Orchestra gets together on the occasion of the Sphinx Competition, in Detroit. It's a competition meant to encourage young African American and Latino musicians. From the concert ...

St. Bernards "Moments of Remembrance" on Thursday, Dec. 11, allows anyone a chance to honor and remember a loved one who has passed.

A children's story for orchestra, women's trio, and a narrator, this piece was written in order to impress upon children the need for human understanding. Verna Avery's text tells the story of a ...