William Grant Still, considered the dean of African American composers, is best known as the first to have a symphony performed by a major symphony orchestra. Until 1950, his 1930 “Afro-American” ...

A brief chronology / Carolyn L. Quin -- Contributed essays. The formative years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895-1911 / Willard B. Gatewood ; "Dean of Afro-American composers" or ...

Last weekend, Opera Vermont and Randolph’s Chandler Center for the Arts partnered in a production of Still’s 1941 “A Bayou ...

Essays about the Composer -- Carrie Still Shepperson: The Hollows of Her Footsteps -- In My Father's House -- My Life as a Composer's Daughter -- From Composer to Composition: The Visionary Path -- ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Boston Chamber Symphony has announced its upcoming concert featuring ...

We head to Boone, North Carolina to hear William Grant Still's Folk Song Suite in concert with the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble.

The format for Thursday night’s Philadelphia Orchestra concert is tried and true: pairing two 19th-century warhorses with a more recent and unfamiliar work. William Grant Still’s symphonic suite Wood ...