[Violin
Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th & 19th Centuries;
Rachel Barton, Violin; Encore Chamber Orchestra; Daniel Hege,
Conductor; Cedille 90000 035 (1997).]
John
Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com
sends a link to a YouTube video (3:14) which was uploaded in 2008 by
Rachel Barton Pine. She made the above recording, which received a
10/10 rating from ClassicsToday.com. It was the first U.S. CD of
music of Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges. In the ABC News Chicago
clip, Rachel says “There are hundreds and hundreds of composers of
African descent from all over the world, from Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America...”:
Uploaded
by RachelBartonPine on Feb 26, 2008 (3:14)
ABC
News Chicago - young violinists play black
composers
Violinist Rachel
Barton Pine presents repertoire from the Rachel Elizabeth Barton
Foundation's curriculum project, The String Student's Library of
Music by Black Composers, on ABC News Chicago, February 26, 2008.
Rachel plays "Deep River" by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
(1875-1912), 10-year-old Ade Williams plays "Deserted Garden"
by Florence Price (1887-1953), and 14-year-old Clayton
Penrose-Whitmore plays "Here's One" by William Grant Still
(1895-1978).
For more information about the Rachel Elizabeth
Barton Foundation, please visit www.rebf.org. [Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, Florence B. Price, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges
and William Grant Still are
profiled
at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works
List for Coleridge-Taylor, Price and Still by Prof. Dominique-René
de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com]
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