Discover Classical celebrates this great American by playing music inspired by his life and legacy, as well as works by composers of African ancestry, and music influenced by the Black experience.
6am Hour
Florence Price: Ethiopia's Shadow in America
William Grant Still: Vignettes
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
7am Hour
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blues Forms
Duke Ellington: Harlem
8am Hour
Adolphus Hailstork: Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air
9am Hour
Harry Thacker Burleigh: My Lord, What a Mornin'
10am Hour
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
11am Hour
Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Concerto in A Major
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Spirituals
12pm Hour
Ulysses Kay: Dances
Harry Thacker Burleigh: From the Southland
1pm Hour
Scott Joplin: Overture to Treemonisha
William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
2pm Hour
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blues Forms
3pm Hour
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 2 "Generations"
Florence Price: Songs of the Oak
4pm Hour
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in D minor
Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
5pm Hour
Eric Ball: Rhapsody No. 2 on Negro Spirituals
William Grant Still: Wood Notes
Rosamond Johnson: Lift Every Voice and Sing
10pm Hour
Florence Price: Adoration
William Grant Still: In Memoriam
11pm Hour
Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony in G Major
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River