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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 ...
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.
William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. 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.
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]
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1] At the time, it was known as the " New Negro Movement ", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited ...
Highway 1, USA. (Still) William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Highway 1, USA is an American opera in one act with music by William Grant Still and libretto by Verna Arvey. [1][2] Originally composed during the 1940s with the title A Southern Interlude, the opera received its premiere under its revised and definitive ...
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.'
William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Africa is a 1930 symphonic poem in three movements by American composer William Grant Still. [1] The work, originally scored for chamber orchestra, was first performed in 1930 by French flautist Georges Barrère and, in a full orchestra version, by Howard Hanson on October 24, 1930, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New ...