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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Wednesday

10:17 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
10:13 AM
Variations on L. Mason's Nearer, My God, to Thee
Justin Holland
Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements
Christopher Mallett, guitar
4:05
9:57 AM
Grass
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Coleridge-Tayler Perkinson - A Celebration
Chicago Sinfonietta
Paul Freeman, conductor
16:09
9:40 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
9:33 AM
Steal Away
Traditional
Imani Winds: The Classical Underground
Imani Winds
6:29
9:17 AM
Dam Mwen Yo
Nathalie Joachim
Forward Music Project, Vol. 1
Nathalie Joachim, vocals
5:26
9:16 AM
Lullaby
Isak Roux
Kete: Piano Music of the African Diaspora
William Chapman Nyaho, piano
1:34
9:08 AM
African Suite: Joyful Day
Fela Sowande
Milhaud, Morice, Forsyth, Sowande
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Mario Bernardi, conductor
7:49
9:03 AM
Radiant Pinnacle
William Grant Still
Black Diamonds: Althea Waites Plays Music by African-American Composers
Althea Waites, piano
4:15
8:40 AM
Violin Concerto
Julia Perry
American Counterpoints
Experiential Orchestra
James Blachly, conductor
Curtis Stewart, violin
22:58
8:32 AM
Haitian Fight Song
Charles Mingus
Meeting of the Spirits
UCCELLO
Matt Haimovitz, cello
7:52
8:31 AM
I Gotta Move When the Spirit Say Move
Spiritual
Good News: African American Spirituals and Art Songs
Othello Jefferson, tenor
1:27
8:19 AM
Concert Overture No. 1
Florence Price
Price: Songs of the Oak - Concert Overtures Nos. 1-2
Wurttemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen
John Jeter, conductor
11:39
8:15 AM
Celebration!
Adolphus Hailstork
Black Composers Series 1974-1978
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Paul Freeman, conductor
3:19
8:03 AM
Pulse
Brian Raphael Nabors
Minnesota Orchestra Listening Project Recording
Minnesota Orchestra
Kensho Watanabe, conductor
12:24
7:53 AM
Joy Boy
Julius Eastman
Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy
Wild Up
10:00
7:47 AM
Warmth from Other Suns: Rays of Light
Carlos Simon
Light: Migration Music Part 1
Ivalas Quartet
5:34
7:45 AM
Spin
Don Byron
A Ballad for Many
Bang on a Can All-Stars
1:35
7:34 AM
Coincident Dances
Jessie Montgomery
Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers
Chicago Sinfonietta
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
11:42
7:24 AM
Carry That Sound
Julian Joseph
Spark Catchers
Chineke! Orchestra
Wayne Marshall, conductor
9:29
7:21 AM
When We Sing
Rosephanye Powell
Alone Together
Cantus
3:20
7:12 AM
Pieta
Ulysses Kay
Light in a Time of Darkness
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Anna Mattix, English horn
8:14
7:02 AM
Unrest
Brandee Younger
Unrest
Brandee Younger, harp
9:20
6:34 AM
My People
Joel Thompson
Rising
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
3:21
6:22 AM
Negro Folk Symphony: Hope in the Night
William Dawson
Walker: Lyric for Strings, Folksongs for Orchestra, Lilacs - Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
Seattle Symphony
Roderick Cox, conductor
11:35
6:07 AM
the promise of the far horizon
Jeffrey Mumford
jeffrey mumford: the promise of the far horizon
Corigliano Quartet
15:12