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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra teams up with its Assistant Conductor Kellen Gray to record works by three of the twentieth century’s greatest African American voices. Released to coincide with Black History Month, the two symphonies by William Levi Dawson and William Grant Still proved to be fundamental in the utilization of Afro-American idioms within the symphonic form. Each composer focused on one of the two original staples of African American music: folk and jazz.
William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony takes its inspiration from West African folk idioms, American Negro spirituals and early African American folk rhythms and songs from Gullah culture. William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1 draws its influence from elements popular in jazz and pre-jazz. Although the latter is the more well-known figure in American music, Dawson was every bit as significant in the timeline of African-American music, and his only published symphony is astonishingly mature for a composer’s earliest efforts at symphonic writing. This programme also celebrates the centenary of George Walker’s birth with the inclusion of his Lyric for Strings. © Linn Records
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Negro Folk Symphony (William Levi Dawson)
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, MainArtist - William Levi Dawson, Composer - Kellen Gray, MainArtist
2022 Outhere 2022 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, MainArtist - William Levi Dawson, Composer - Kellen Gray, MainArtist
2022 Outhere 2022 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, MainArtist - William Levi Dawson, Composer - Kellen Gray, MainArtist
2022 Outhere 2022 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, MainArtist - George Walker, Composer - Kellen Gray, MainArtist
2022 Outhere 2022 Linn Records
Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American" (William Grant Still)
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, MainArtist - William Grant Still, Composer - Kellen Gray, MainArtist
2022 Outhere 2022 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, MainArtist - William Grant Still, Composer - Kellen Gray, MainArtist
2022 Outhere 2022 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, MainArtist - William Grant Still, Composer - Kellen Gray, MainArtist
2022 Outhere 2022 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, MainArtist - William Grant Still, Composer - Kellen Gray, MainArtist
2022 Outhere 2022 Linn Records
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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra teams up with its Assistant Conductor Kellen Gray to record works by three of the twentieth century’s greatest African American voices. Released to coincide with Black History Month, the two symphonies by William Levi Dawson and William Grant Still proved to be fundamental in the utilization of Afro-American idioms within the symphonic form. Each composer focused on one of the two original staples of African American music: folk and jazz.
William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony takes its inspiration from West African folk idioms, American Negro spirituals and early African American folk rhythms and songs from Gullah culture. William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1 draws its influence from elements popular in jazz and pre-jazz. Although the latter is the more well-known figure in American music, Dawson was every bit as significant in the timeline of African-American music, and his only published symphony is astonishingly mature for a composer’s earliest efforts at symphonic writing. This programme also celebrates the centenary of George Walker’s birth with the inclusion of his Lyric for Strings. © Linn Records
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 01:00:57
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: The Royal Scottish National Orchestra Kellen Gray
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Linn Records
- Genre: Classical
2022 Outhere 2022 Linn Records
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