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Fantasie Nègre - The Piano Music of Florence Price
[…] heavily qualified. The composers concerned were largely male and almost exclusively white. Composers such as Amy Beach (1867-1944) never had the opportunity to travel beyond the USA, but still the training that such women received was still very Eurocentric. The case with Black composers was even more complex, and a generation sprang up that combined this European training with African-American themes. Important amongst these was William Grant Still (1895-1978) whose training included study with George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931), an important member of the Eurocentric Second New England School (which included Amy Beach and Edward MacDowell). It was Grant Still who combined this European-style training with this African-American background to create his Afro-American Symphony (1930), which was, until 1950, the most widely performed symphony composed by an American. If you were Black and female, then the challenge could be greater but there was still the innate tension between the […]
2021-02-27 20:53:00
WaynesboroSymphonyOrchestra.org: Livestream Sunday, Feb. 28, 3 PM ET: Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Walker & William Grant Still
[…] York City Opera. Still is known primarily for his first symphony, Afro-American Symphony (1930), which was, until 1950, the most widely performed symphony composed by an American. Born in Mississippi, he grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and was a student of George Whitefield Chadwick and Edgard Varèse.Of note, Still was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony (his 1st Symphony) performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company, and the first […]
2019-12-29 09:13:38
Dramatic Elgar and rare Chadwick from BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Andrew Constantine on Orchid Classics
[…] complementing each other. The musical sections are long-breathed, including one 13 minute run and there are just four spoken interludes. Perhaps it is not the way I would listen to Falstaff every time, but it works well and brings the music into a different focus. And, as a bonus, you have the complete musical performance without spoken interludes on a second disc.The companion piece on the disc is Tam O'Shanter by the American composer George Whitefield Chadwick. Chadwick was an almost exact contemporary of Elgar's, but though the two did meet once they never seem to have had anything like a positive relationship. Chadwick studied in New England and with Carl Reinecke in Leipzig, and then with Joseph Rheinberger in Munich. Returning to the USA, he became dean of the New England Conservatory. Though Chadwick has a reputation as a teacher, his substantial body of music is relatively unexplored.Tam O'Shanter […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-11-13 01:24:00
An outsider artist’s unblinking look at racial terror
“Much of [Mary Frances] Whitfield’s work depicts these stories from the days of slavery] — of picking cotton, singing songs, and other images of life for black Americans in days past. But Whitefield’s art shifted when she made a trip to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in the early 1990s, where she saw images of […]
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