Curated Streams

Black History Month

Celebrating Black Composers and Performers

Celebrate the contributions, achievements and essential classical music of Black composers and performers from yesterday and today on YourClassical's Black History Month Stream.

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Monday

8:01 AM
An Elegy (A Cry from the Grave)
Carlos Simon
My Ancestor's Gift
Teagan Faran, violin
5:20
7:56 AM
The Bells
Margaret Bonds
Black Renaissance Woman
Samantha Ege, piano
4:57
7:53 AM
Free at Last
Traditional
Free At Last
Harlem Spiritual Ensemble
2:30
7:45 AM
Brother Malcolm...
Jean "Rudy" Perrault
Tanbou Kache
Diana Golden, cello
7:45
7:25 AM
Three Black Kings
Duke Ellington
American Composers Orchestra
Maurice Peress, conductor
Jimmy Heath, tenor and soprano saxophones
19:13
7:08 AM
Symphony No. 3 "Sunday Symphony"
William Grant Still
Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3; Wood Notes
Fort Smith Symphony
John Jeter, conductor
17:48
7:03 AM
Variations on L. Mason's Nearer, My God, to Thee
Justin Holland
Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements
Christopher Mallett, guitar
4:05
6:47 AM
Grass
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Coleridge-Tayler Perkinson - A Celebration
Chicago Sinfonietta
Paul Freeman, conductor
16:09
6:30 AM
Songs of the Oak
Florence Price
Price: Songs of the Oak - Concert Overtures Nos. 1-2
Wurttemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen
John Jeter, conductor
16:20
6:23 AM
Steal Away
Traditional
Imani Winds: The Classical Underground
Imani Winds
6:29
6:07 AM
Dam Mwen Yo
Nathalie Joachim
Forward Music Project, Vol. 1
Nathalie Joachim, vocals
5:26
6:06 AM
Lullaby
Isak Roux
Kete: Piano Music of the African Diaspora
William Chapman Nyaho, piano
1:34