April 28 | Margaret Bonds’s Spiritual Suite, performed by Fernando Garcia Trouble viewing the video? Click here to watch it on IU Media Collections Online. About the composer and piece Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) was a composer, pianist, teacher, and activist whose career spanned from the Harlem Renaissance through the civil rights movement. At the age of… Read more »
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Toccata, performed by Yoshino Toi
April 21 | Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Toccata, performed by Yoshino Toi Trouble viewing the video? Click here to watch it on IU Media Collections Online. About the composer and piece Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) was an American composer, conductor, and teacher. His parents named him after the groundbreaking Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) whose compositions in standard… Read more »
William Grant Still’s “Three Visions,” performed by Joseph Stiefel
April 14 | William Grant Still’s Three Visions, performed by Joseph Stiefel Trouble viewing the video? Click here to watch it on IU Media Collections Online. About the composer and piece William Grant Still wrote his Three Visions for piano in 1935, one year after his move from New York to Los Angeles. This coincided with… Read more »
Florence Price’s “Breezes,” “Clouds,” and “Meditation,” performed by Kaden Larson
April 7 | Florence Price’s “Breezes,” “Clouds,” and “Meditation,” performed by Kaden Larson Trouble viewing the video? Click here to watch it on IU Media Collections Online. About the composer and piece In honor of Florence Price’s birthday week, Kaden is performing three of her character pieces for piano! Florence Price was born on April… Read more »
George Walker’s Piano Sonata No. 2, performed by Noah Sonderling
March 31, 2021 Trouble viewing the video? Click here to watch it on IU Media Collections Online. About the composer and piece Born in Washington, D.C., pianist and composer George Walker (1922-2018) studied at Oberlin Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where Walker was one of the first Black… Read more »
William Grant Still’s “Out of the Silence” and Nathaniel Dett’s “Barcarolle”
“Out of the Silence,” from Seven Traceries, by William Grant Still, performed by Amanda Andrishak Trouble viewing the video? Click here to watch it on IU Media Collections Online. About the composer and piece William Grant Still is most well known for becoming, in 1931, the first Black American composer to have a symphony performed by… Read more »
Betty Jackson King’s Four Seasonal Sketches, performed by Mira Walker
Trouble viewing the video? Click here to watch it on IU Media Collections Online. The photographs and newspaper clippings in Mira’s slideshow are taken from this Facebook page dedicated to Betty Jackson King. This page actively shares recent performances of her music. About the composer and piece Betty Jackson King (1928-1994) was born in Chicago…. Read more »
Cedric Adderley’s Allegro giocoso, performed by the B&T Duo
March 10, 2021 Trouble viewing the video? Click here to watch it on IU Media Collections Online. About the composer and piece A native of South Carolina, Dr. Cedric Adderley has a multi-faceted career as a composer, trumpeter, teacher, and arts administrator. He currently serves as President of the South Carolina Governor’s School of Arts… Read more »