The concert begins with young African-American composer Carlos Simon’s electric “Fate Now Conquers” inspired by Beethoven. Concert repeats Sunday, March 5, at 2:30 pm. Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes ...

Music played a key role in African American religious life. Hymns and spirituals, many written by black composers, accompanied preaching in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and other ...

On Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 8:00pm, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland presents ...

Florence Price (1887 – 1953) was an award-winning African-American classical composer. She is thought to have been the first woman symphonist of African-American heritage, and was certainly the ...

Orchestra’s Black Legacies concert, available on BBC Sounds – we explore the profound contribution black composers are making ... affirmed his identity as an African American gay man.

Pieces by well-established Black composers in diverse genres ... In 1933, she became the first African American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra, the Chicago ...

The concert focused on operas by African American composers, operas about the African American experience, and mainstream opera, as well as African American musical genres such as spirituals and jazz ...

Performers include violinists Zachary Brandon, Michelle Bushkova and Maude Cloutier; pianists Alexander Kostritsa, Muyu Lu, ...