Repertoire to Celebrate Black History Month

Today we do our part to honor and celebrate the amazing talents of these black composers on this, the first day of Black History Month. Below is a small, but ever-growing list of composers that I have written about in the last year paired with one or more of their most popular works. For additional information and resources, please check out on Anna’s Database: http://www.annaedwardsconductor.com/annas-composer-database

Eleanor Alberga

• Rise Athena

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

William Dawson

• Negro Folk Symphony

Hanna Benn

• Sankofa

• Where Springs Not Fail

Margaret Bonds

• Ballade of the Brown King

Valerie Coleman

• Portraits of Josephine (ballet)

• Umoja

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

• Ballade, op 33

Adolphus Hailstork

• Piano concerto

• Sonata da Chiesa

Jonathan Bailey Holland

• Halcyon Sun

Ulysses Kay

• Suite from “The Quiet One”

Hannah Kendell

• Vera

Quinn Mason

• Toast of the Town - Overture

Jessie Montgomery

• Coincident Dances

Undine Smith Moore

• Afro-American Suite for flute, cello and piano mvt 1

Nkeiru Okoye

• Black Bottom

Julia Perry

• Short Piece for Orchestra

Florence Price

• Symphony 3

Joseph Bologne de St Georges

• Symphony No. 1 in G Major, op. 11

William Grant Still

• “Africa” Symphonic Poem

• Mother and Child

Joel Thompson

• Seven Last Words of the Unarmed

George Walker

• Lyric for Strings

Errollyn Wallen

• Concerto Grosso for piano, vln, vb and strings

Mary Watkins

• Five Movements in Color: Soul of Remembrance