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
William Grant Still: The American Scene - The Far West
Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
7am Hour
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 2 "Generations"
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River
8am Hour
Scott Joplin: Eugenia
Eric Ball: Rhapsody No. 2 on Negro Spirituals
9am Hour
William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
10am Hour
Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 5 No. 2
11am Hour
Duke Ellington: Suite from The River
12pm Hour
Ulysses Kay: Six Dances
1pm Hour
Florence Price: Piano Sonata in E minor
2pm Hour
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blues Forms
3pm Hour
Florence Price: Ethiopia's Shadow in America
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
4pm Hour
Duke Ellington: Harlem
Adolphus Hailstork: Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed
5pm Hour
William Grant Still: Vignettes
Henry Thacker Burleigh: My Lord, What a Mornin'
6pm - 8pm
Performance Today: A King Celebration
10pm Hour
Scott Joplin: Solace
William Grant Still: Pastorela
11pm Hour
Florence Price: Adoration
Jessie Montgomery: Peace