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There’s nothing quite like Augustin Hadelich playing his violin all by himself, especially when it’s the music of J.S. Bach for an unaccompanied string instrument. The Baroque composer who showed the world how to create the illusion of a miniature orchestra could make it seem as if it were several instruments playing some of the most sublime counterpoint ever penned.

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson was fated to write music. He was born in 1932 and raised in Manhattan, the child of a mother active in the arts as a piano teacher, church organist, and director of a theater company… who named her son after the great African-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

All Classical Portland is proud to share a diverse offering of music we love all year round. During Black History Month in February, we are shining a special spotlight on the extraordinary contributions to classical music by Black composers and performing artists. In this post, you’ll get to know some of the composers who will...