George Walker and Latonia Moore

Sunday July 24, 2022 WCRB classical 99.5 Tanglewood Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcast included composer William Grant Still’s “In Memoriam, The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy” and soprano Latonia Moore singing composer George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize “Lilac” (text by Walt Whitman). I was a close friend of George Walker and current friend of Latonia Moore.…

William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony

American composer William Levi Dawson was a treasured friend and I consider his Negro Folk Symphony a neglected masterpiece. Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony will be performed with other masterpieces by Bernstein and Beethoven Jan 8 & 9, 2022 by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. See https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2122-cso-season/dawson-beethoven-bernstein/ Additionally, the CSO  will perform a newly composed score to accompany…