Africa:
Piano Music of William Grant Still
Denver Oldham, piano
Koch International Classics 3-7084-2H1 (1991)
William Grant Still (1895-1978) and Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) are profiled at AfriClassical.com, which
features a comprehensive Works List for Still by Prof. Dominique-René de
Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com
Dominique-René de Lerma writes of the public radio program Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin:
This week with Bill McGlaughlin
With the week's theme, The Roaring 20s (aka The
Harlem Renaissance, and The Jazz Age), the following works are
within the repertoire for Exploring music:
Monday, 15 April
Ellington: Creole love call (The Duke Ellington
Orchestra)
Tuesday, 16 April
Still: Land of romance, from Africa (Denver
Oldham, piano)
Kern: Ol' man river, from Showboat (Paul
Robeson, bass).
In the course of the week are scheduled works by George Antheil,
Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, John Alden Carpenter, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, George
Gershwin, Paul Hindemith, Fritz Kreisler, Darius Milhaud (a teacher of T. J.
Anderson), Walter Piston, Serge Prokofiev, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Carl
Ruggles, Eric Satie, Arnold Schönberg, Roger Sessions, Germaine Tailleferre, Virgil
Thomson, Edgar Varèse (a teacher of William Grant Still), and Curt Weill.
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Dominique-René
de Lerma
http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com
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