William Grant Still (1895-1978) is featured at AfriClassical.com
Palm Beach Daily News
Will music go down easier with a story?
Palm Beach Symphony will try out that concept next season with its new themed chamber music series.
“As a 44-year-old organization
committed to bringing classical music into every corner of the
community we cannot expect to diversify our audiences without
diversifying our offerings,” Executive Director David McClymont said.
The
series aims to attract new audiences with 75-minute performances
featuring a narrator who sprinkles background and visuals between the
music. The narratives push the concerts “into the realm of the
dramatic,” McClymont said.
The series will begin Jan. 10 at Palm Beach Day Academy with a
concert honoring Black History Month and dedicated to the music of William Grant Still.
The composer, who died in 1978, was the first black American composer
to have a work performed by a major American orchestra and the first to
conduct a leading American orchestra. Still scholar Rufus Jones Jr. will
narrate.
No comments:
Post a Comment