Innovative programming continues on the "Spring for Music" series from Carnegie Hall being presented on Classical Showcase Friday evening at 7 on Classical 101 with two large-scale works for orchestra ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bridge Records has just released the live recording – and the first-ever commercial recording – of R. Nathaniel Dett’s oratorio “The Ordering of Moses.” The magnificent oratorio was performed by the ...

Negro composers of jazz music, like W. C. Handy and Duke Ellington, have long taken top honors in their field, have long been street-corner names in the U. S. Practically unknown to the U. S. man in ...

At what point do spiritual and classical music converge? With the melodies of the underrated North American composer Robert Nathaniel Dett, according to members of the CSO Spiritual Ensemble.

Worlds will come together when the Harmonia Chamber Singers welcome Toronto’s famous Nathaniel Dett Chorale. The two groups are giving a concert together in Buffalo's Holy Angels Church. The Nathaniel ...

The Niagara region's legendary black composer and conductor Robert Nathaniel Dett will be remembered during musical programs Oct. 11-12 at Stella Niagara Education Park. The Hampton University Concert ...

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 ...