William Grant Still is a composer and known as “The Dean” of African-American composers. His beautiful orchestral music incorporates elements of the blues in this piece, “Afro-American Symphony” or Symphony No. 1.
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Learn more by checking out this Classical FM article about black composers or by reading this article about the piece.
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