William Grant Still
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Sep 15, 2026
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Organizer of Flonzaley Quartet was Alfred Ponchon, Swiss.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Famous composers include Victor Herbert, Irish, Edward MacDowell, Scot, John Philip Sousa, Portuguese, Percy Grainger, Australian, Eugene Goossens, English, Howard Hanson, Swede, William Grant Still, Negro, Daniel Protheroe, Welsh, Sigmund Romberg, German-Jew, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, Russian-Jews, Emil Gluck, Romanian, Rudolf Friml, Czech.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Outstanding conductors include Gabrilowitsch, Russian-Jew, Walter and Klemperer, German, Koussevitzky and Smolens, Russian-Jews, Stokowski, Polish, Ormandy and Rappe, Hungarians, Ganz, Swiss, Koschets, Ukrainian, Szell, Russian, Busch, Dane, Kindler, Netherlander, Damrosch, German, Rodzinski, Yugoslav, Victor Kolar, Czech.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Leading violin players of worldwide fame are Elman, Heifetz, Zimbalist, Russian-Jews, and Yehudi Menuhin, Romanian-Jew, Ysaye, Belgian, De Foch, Czech, Predakyvych, Ukrainian.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
¶¶ ¶¶ Thank you.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
¶¶ . . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¶¶ Siegfried Landau led music for Westchester Symphony Orchestra in From the Black Belt by William Grant Still.
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Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
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Martha BantaGUEST
Yes.
Martha BantaGUEST
Three of them by Valerie and one by Debussy, one by Ravel, and one by William Grant Still, which is an absolute beautiful masterpiece, a movement, uh, from his Three Visions called Summerland.
Jim CunninghamHOST
Monica Ellis has been here on several occasions.
Jim CunninghamHOST
Her mom still lives in Pittsburgh-
DougNARRATOR
Florence never gave up writing songs.
DougNARRATOR
She became the most prominent African-American composer of the 20th century, along with William Grant Still.
DougNARRATOR
She came into contact with Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Dubois, Marian Anderson, and the famous dancer Catherine Dunham.
DougNARRATOR
Florence wrote more than 300 songs.
Abby FayetteGUEST
What we wanted to do is we wanted to show a sort of breadth of timeline for these composers that people might not realize.
Abby FayetteGUEST
You know, the first three albums, which feature the works of Samuel Cordes Taylor, William Grant Still, Florence Price, and a few others, really kind of exists in the 19th and 20th century realm.
Abby FayetteGUEST
But you have this incredible individual who functioned in the highest level of French aristocracy, which was quite unusual for a Black man in those days.
Abby FayetteGUEST
who had such an incredible approach to creating music that's joyful.