Black History Month on All Classical Portland | All Classical Portland
Host Andrea Murray highlights local Portland pianist, composer, and educator Darrell Grant, and his project Take Flight. His son’s teacher requested that Grant write a song that parents could sing to the children during their middle-school class promotion. As he wrote, he thought about the bittersweet nature of launching our children into the world. Everything shifted as the coronavirus descended on the world, traditional rites of passage for youth were suspended indefinitely, and nationwide protests began in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In this challenging and painful time of r...
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