Black Voices in Classical Music / HL-39
Monday, December 1, 2025 |
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Michelle Cann performs a meditative movement from Florence Price’s Sonata for Piano at a recording of From the Top at Interlochen Arts Center in 2019.
About
Guest Host Alex Laing joins for a celebration of Black voices in classical music. We’re catching up with From the Top alumni who are making waves in the field and will meet prominent composer Jessie Montgomery.
Guests
- Guest Host: Alex Laing
Clarinetist Alex Laing is a leader in the arts.
Performers & Repertoire
- Piano Sonata in E Minor: III. Scherzo. Allegro by Florence Price (1887-1953)
Thank you to Curtis Studio - Free for Layered Celli by Quenton Xavier Blache
Excerpts from Suite No. 3 of Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Lamentations “Black Folk Song Suite”: IV. Perpetual Motion by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) , PetrolMusic by Khari Joyner , Mourinho by Ricardo Herz (b. 1978) , and Sequenza XIV by Luciano Berio (1925-2003) - Free for Layered Celli by Quenton Xavier Blache
Excerpts from Suite No. 3 of Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Lamentations “Black Folk Song Suite”: IV. Perpetual Motion by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) , PetrolMusic by Khari Joyner , Mourinho by Ricardo Herz (b. 1978) , and Sequenza XIV by Luciano Berio (1925-2003) - In the Court of King Oliver by Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)
- Essence of Ruby by Brandee Younger (b. 1983)
- Peace for Violin and Piano by Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981) performed by Célina Béthoux and Orli Shaham
- Three Romances, Op. 94: I. Nicht schnell by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Release Date
- Monday, December 1, 2025
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