William Grant Still Essentials
Apple Music Classical
With more than 200 works to his name, the American composer William Grant Still wrote for the concert hall, opera house, church, salon and ballet stage. He was the first American to have an opera performed by Fiorello La Guardia's New York City Opera company and was an important part of the Harlem Renaissance movement that revived and showcased the work of Black American artists. Deeply influenced by folk music, Still’s works are a wonderful, vivid expression of Americana.
La Guiablessee Prelude
W. G. Still
Yamekraw, A Negro Rhapsody (arr. W.G. Still for piano and orchestra)
I. Spiritual
Mark Boozer
A Black Pierrot
Sahdji (Ballet for Orchestra & Chorus) [Remastered]
Paul Freeman, Morgan State College Choir, London Symphony Orchestra
Miniatures
Ride an Old Paint
Richard Soule, Carol Stivers, Stephen Caplan
Darker America
Westchester Symphony Orcherstra, Siegfried Landau, Music for Westchester Symphony Orchestra
W. G. Still: Lyric Quartette (arr. G. Kostraba)
I. the Sentimental One
Toledo Clarinets
W. G. Still: Wood Notes
W. G. Still: Symphony No. 3, "The Sunday Symphony"
W. G. Still: Threnody in Memory of Jean Sibelius
W. G. Still: Selections from Littler Folk Suites
IV. Aurore Pradere and Tant Sirop est Doux
Steve Pologe, Fritz Gearhart, Leslie Straka, Kathryn Lucktenberg
W. G. Still: Highway One