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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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Thursday
  • 10:23 AM

    Dam Mwen Yo

    Nathalie Joachim

    Forward Music Project, Vol. 1

    Nathalie Joachim, vocals

    5:26
  • 10:22 AM

    Lullaby

    Isak Roux

    Kete: Piano Music of the African Diaspora

    William Chapman Nyaho, piano

    1:34
  • 10:14 AM

    African Suite: Joyful Day

    Fela Sowande

    Milhaud, Morice, Forsyth, Sowande

    National Arts Centre Orchestra

    Mario Bernardi, conductor

    7:49
  • 10:09 AM

    Radiant Pinnacle

    William Grant Still

    Black Diamonds: Althea Waites Plays Music by African-American Composers

    Althea Waites, piano

    4:15
  • 9:46 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Julia Perry

    American Counterpoints

    Experiential Orchestra

    James Blachly, conductor

    Curtis Stewart, violin

    22:58
  • 9:38 AM

    Haitian Fight Song

    Charles Mingus

    Meeting of the Spirits

    UCCELLO

    Matt Haimovitz, cello

    7:52
  • 9:37 AM

    I Gotta Move When the Spirit Say Move

    Spiritual

    Good News: African American Spirituals and Art Songs

    Othello Jefferson, tenor

    1:27
  • 9:25 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
  • 9:21 AM

    Celebration!

    Adolphus Hailstork

    Black Composers Series 1974-1978

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    3:19
  • 9:09 AM

    Pulse

    Brian Raphael Nabors

    Minnesota Orchestra Listening Project Recording

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Kensho Watanabe, conductor

    12:24
  • 8:59 AM

    Joy Boy

    Julius Eastman

    Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy

    Wild Up

    10:00
  • 8:53 AM

    Warmth from Other Suns: Rays of Light

    Carlos Simon

    Light: Migration Music Part 1

    Ivalas Quartet

    5:34
  • 8:51 AM

    Spin

    Don Byron

    A Ballad for Many

    Bang on a Can All-Stars

    1:35
  • 8:40 AM

    Coincident Dances

    Jessie Montgomery

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    11:42
  • 8:30 AM

    Carry That Sound

    Julian Joseph

    Spark Catchers

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Wayne Marshall, conductor

    9:29
  • 8:27 AM

    When We Sing

    Rosephanye Powell

    Alone Together

    Cantus

    3:20
  • 8:18 AM

    Pieta

    Ulysses Kay

    Light in a Time of Darkness

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Anna Mattix, English horn

    8:14
  • 8:08 AM

    Unrest

    Brandee Younger

    Unrest

    Brandee Younger, harp

    9:20
  • 7:40 AM

    My People

    Joel Thompson

    Rising

    Lawrence Brownlee, tenor

    3:21
  • 7:28 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
  • 7:13 AM

    the promise of the far horizon

    Jeffrey Mumford

    jeffrey mumford: the promise of the far horizon

    Corigliano Quartet

    15:12
  • 7:05 AM

    Epitaph (To Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

    Adolphus Hailstork

    African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. II

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    7:38
  • 6:59 AM

    Peace

    Jessie Montgomery

    Here With You

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    4:39
  • 6:36 AM

    New Morning for the World

    Joseph Schwantner

    Oregon Symphony

    James DePreist, conductor

    Raymond Bazemore, bass

    23:28
  • 6:32 AM

    Requiem for the Enslaved: gloria

    Carlos Simon

    Carlos Simon: Requiem for the Enslaved

    Hub New Music

    3:14
  • 6:17 AM

    Umoja: Anthem of Unity

    Valerie Coleman

    ETHIOPIA'S SHADOW IN AMERICA

    New York Youth Symphony

    Michael Repper, conductor

    13:25
  • 6:04 AM

    Flute Sonata

    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Amplify: Changing America's Playlist (Rii Vol. 1)

    Adam Eccleston, flute

    12:19
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