ChicagoClassicalReview.com: Chicago S.O. in William Grant Still's "In Memoriam"

William Grant Still (1895-1978)

Chicago Classical Review

Jan. 11, 2019

By Lawrence A. Johnson

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Music of William Grant Still gave the soloist a respite, with In Memoriam: For Coloured Soldiers Who Died for Democracy making an apt prelude to the more somber final songs. Still’s six-minute tone poem is cast in the form of a lyrical idyll with elegiac English horn solos.