WTJU Feb 12th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
The Classics a Day team has celebrated Balck composers before. This time around, I tried to avoid duplication with previous posts. It was easy to do. There is a
lot of classical music by persons of color, both in the past as well as the present. A lot.
Here are my posts for the second week of #BlackHistoryMonth for #ClassicsaDay.
02/08/21 Florence Price – Ethiopia’s Shadow in America (1932)
According to Price, the work’s three movements portray the Negro arriving in America as a slave, his resignation and faith, and finally his adaptation, fusing his native and acquired cultures.
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