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Signature. William Grant Still Jr. (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, over thirty choral works, art songs, chamber music, and solo works. Born in Mississippi and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, [1] Still attended Wilberforce University ...
Afro-American Symphony, also known as Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" and Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major, is a 1930 composition by William Grant Still, the first symphony written by an African American and performed for a United States audience by a leading orchestra. It was premiered in 1931 by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and later ...
New York City Opera. Troubled Island is an American opera in three acts composed by William Grant Still, with a libretto begun by poet Langston Hughes and completed by Verna Arvey. She married the composer following their collaboration. Set in Haiti in 1791, Troubled Island portrays Jean Jacques Dessalines (1758–1806) and the Haitian Revolution.
A description of Three Visions is presented as follows: One of the finest groups of piano compositions to be written by any American composer is the Three Visions by William Grant Still, published by J. Fischer and Bro. The harmonies in these Visions are strange. By them, the listener is aware that the "visions" are real only to the dreamer.
Still composed A Bayou Legend in 1941, but it was not professionally staged until 1974, when Opera/South in Jackson, Mississippi presented its world premiere, 33 years later. The company revived the opera in 1976, and in 1979 collaborated with the Mississippi Educational Television Authority to create a made-for-television film version.
The American Scene. (Still) William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. The American Scene is a musical composition consisting of five orchestral suites composed in 1957 by American composer William Grant Still. [1]
A curious L.A. Opera double bill pairs Viennese composer Alexander Zemlinsky's 'The Dwarf' with the Black American composer William Grant Still's 'Highway 1, USA.' Review: One fled Nazis; one was ...
Darker America. (Still) Darker America is a 1924 symphonic poem by American composer William Grant Still. [1] The composition, exploring themes of sorrow, hope, and prayer, is a work derived from Still's studies with the modernist composer Edgard Varèse. In the work, Still uses "melodic types found in African American music such as the ...