african american music

Conductor Kellen Gray's most recent recording, African American Voices II, is the first major recording of important works by three noted African American composers - but it is more than that. The recording’s collection of distinctive musical voices stands to bring nuance to our understanding of the landscape of African American music.

11:00 Wagner, Verdi...Joplin. Scott Joplin, the composer known for his ragtime pieces, also wrote opera. In fact, in the last hundred years, several…