AfriClassical: Alabama Symphony Performs African American Chamber Music on Inauguration Day 2009

[George Walker (b. 1922) is an African American composer who was born in Washington, D.C.]

The Alabama Symphony will perform a program of chamber music by African American composers on the same day President Barack Obama is inaugurated:

Concertmaster & Friends

Daniel Szasz, Violin

Anthony Pattin, Piano

January 20, 2009 - 7:30 PM

William Grant Still: Suite for violin and piano

George Walker: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano

William Grant Still: Six Pieces for violin and piano

Scott Joplin: The Entertainer

Duke Ellington: Sophisticated Lady

David Baker: Blues (Deliver My Soul)

Arr. Heifetz: Deep River

Arr. Barrie Carson Turner: Down By the Riverside

Traditional: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Edwin Robertson: Saints Fantasy for violin and piano

[Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, William Grant Still and George Walker are profiled at AfriClassical.com]

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