AfriClassical Blog Digest

[Afro-American Symphony; William Grant Still; Suite from 'The River'; Duke Ellington; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Järvi, conductor; Chandos 9154 (1993)]

AfriClassical Blog Digest

Have you missed a few posts on AfriClassical Blog recently? Are you new to the blog? Either way, here is a handy way to skim the stories covered recently, and follow the links to the posts which grab your attention. AfriClassical Blog is a companion to www.AfriClassical.com, the website on African Heritage in Classical Music.

Final 3 Dates of Mississippi Symphony's William Grant Still Tour

Alvin Singleton, African American Composer: "Sing to the Sun”

Girma Yifrashewa, Ethiopian Composer Born Oct. 15, 1967

Global Voices: Trinidad and Tobago, Canada: Profiling Kwamé Ryan

Franco-American News & Events, 7: ...multicultural society...fact, not fiction.

Kwamé Ryan, Black Canadian Conductor in Bordeaux

T. J. Anderson, African American Composer (b.1928)

R. Nathaniel Dett, African American Composer Born Oct. 11, 1882

Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, Conductor of The Nathaniel Dett Chorale

Reader : 'Drawing Reeks of Disdain and Contempt'

Minstrelsy, Racist To Its Core, Is Morally Repugnant

Sphinx Organization Seeks Director of Education & Youth Development

The Sowetan Nation Building Massed Choir Festival

Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Premier Performer of Afrocentric Choral Music

Robert Nathaniel Dett 125th Anniversary Celebration and American Music Festival

French Language Post on AfriClassical

Samuel Ekpe Akpabot : Compositeur nigérian né le 3 octobre 1932

Pianist Roy Eaton Plays “7 Gershwin Preludes” On Roosevelt Island Oct. 6

Samuel Ekpe Akpabot, Nigerian Composer Born Oct. 3, 1932

'On An Overgrown Path' Honors Nigerian Pianist Sodi Braide

Songs of African American Composers, UC Berkeley Oct. 3

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