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]
London Symphony Orchestra, Paul Freeman, Morgan State College Choir
Miniatures
Ride an Old Paint
Stephen Caplan, Carol Stivers, Richard Soule
Darker America
Siegfried Landau, Westchester Symphony Orcherstra, 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
Leslie Straka, Kathryn Lucktenberg, Steve Pologe, Fritz Gearhart
W. G. Still: Highway One