Classical Discoveries on WPRB.com: 'THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS,' Music of Black Composers, Friday, January 4, 2013 from 5:30 to 11:00 AM

R. Nathaniel Dett

George Walker

Adolphus C. Hailstork

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson[Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Conducting
the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble
Photo courtesy of the Center for
Black Music Research,
 Columbia College, Chicago]

Adolphus C. Hailstork, Ulysses S. Kay, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Fela Sowande, George Walker and R. Nathaniel Dett are featured at AfriClassical.com

Classical Discoveries on WPRB.com

Friday, January 04, 2013 - from 5:30 - 11:00am. 

On WPRB 103.3 FM Princeton NJ, or on the Internet at: http://www.wprb.com/listen.php 

Classical Discoveries will present the 9th Annual program devoted to music by black composers. Since this program falls between the two holidays; Kwanzaa and  Martin Luther King Jr. Day  both will be celebrated on this special program titled:

THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
You will hear: 

• Jazz Suite for Clarinet and Symphony Orchestra by David Baker (1931- ) 
• Sonata da Chiesa by Adolphus Hailstork (1941-) 
• Concerto for Orchestra by Ulysses Kay (1917-1995)
• Grass:Poem for Piano, Strings & Percussion by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004)
• African Suite by Fela Sowande (1905-1987)
• String Quartet No. 1 by George Walker (1922- )
• plus music by R. Nathaniel Dett, James Kimo Williams, Gyimah Labi plus many more

You can listen to Archives for 2 weeks after each show  at:  http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/index_music   
To record each program on Dar.fm - go to: 
http://www.dar.fm/user_search.php?user_search=Classical%20Discoveries%20%28WPRB%29&list_type=detail&showinfo_id=24801 
The custom link is:  DAR.fm/classicaldiscoveries(wprb).
To find more please check:  http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org  -  home page for the program where  new music lives for almost 15 years and where many discoveries begin.