harlem renaissance centennial

Earlier this year, Classical 101 and the Columbus Museum of Art collaborated for Portraits of Langston, a program featuring music by composers Valerie…

All around the city, Columbus has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance in a big way.As the commemorative events draw to a…

William Grant Still is best known today for his Afro-American Symphony. Still composed the work in 1930 and strove in the symphony to – in his words –…

On Feb. 12, 1924, George Gershwin gave the first performance of his Rhapsody in Blue with famed bandleader Paul Whiteman's band in New York City's Aeolian…

Harry Lawrence Freeman was arguably the most important African-American composer of opera working during the era of the Harlem Renaissance.The Cleveland…

By the height of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century, the tradition of arranging African-American spirituals for concert performance had…

The next time you see a magpie in the sky, I hope you'll remember Four Saints in Three Acts.That there are a prologue and four acts, and 18 saints — maybe…