It is infrequent that I hear music by an unfamiliar composer that is so fantastically beyond anything I have heard before that when it happens, I am convinced of the Divine. So it is with the piano ...

HARLEM, New York (WABC) -- A big and classical orchestra piece written by a Black composer, will be performed for the first time Friday night in Harlem, after the piece was pulled from the radio ...

Dr. R. Nathaniel Dett, famed composer and conductor of Bennett College’s Choir of Greensboro, North Carolina, and his choir performed at Elm Park Methodist Church in Scranton on May 2. The performance ...

Their music ranks with that of the European greats. But their names have never risen to lofty heights of Beethoven, Bach or Brahms. That’s because composers William L. Dawson, William Grant Still and ...

On Friday evening at the Riverside Church, the Harlem Chamber Players are going big to present a seldom encountered biblical oratorio by Harlem Renaissance composer R. Nathaniel Dett. "The Ordering of ...

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On Saturday, April 15, the Elgin Master Chorale will perform "The Ordering of Moses" by R. Nathaniel Dett, featuring the Elgin Symphony Orchestra. Audiences will sense the stirring emotion as Moses ...

Canada's first professional choral group dedicated to Afrocentric music of all styles, including classical, spiritual, gospel, jazz, folk and blues is coming to ...

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The classically trained, 21-member Nathaniel Dett Chorale has performed for some pretty important peeps. In addition to singing their hearts out at the Canadian embassy on the day of President Barrack ...

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William Grant Still was awarded 10 honorary doctorates for his contributions to music and wrote five symphonies and eight operas. Do you know of any them? George Walker was the first Black man to win ...