Friday night May 5 at 6:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the first episode in a new series from the WFMT Radio Network called Gateways Radio. Garrett McQueen is your host. Tonight you’ll hear William Grant Still’s “Afro-American” Symphony and Cockerham’s “Fantasia on ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”.
Tuesday night February 7 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Florence Price’s “3rd Symphony” and William Grant Still’s “Mother and Child”. Also on the program Beethoven’s “4th Symphony”.
Wednesday night September 28 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the “Los Angeles Philharmonic”. Gustavo Dudamel leads the Philharmonic in William Grant Still’s “1st Symphony”. Also on the program Peter Lieberson’s “Neruda Songs” and Angelica Negron’s “Morivivi”.
Monday night March 28 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Tchaikovsky’s “6th Symphony”, the “Pathetique”, Still’s “Old California”, and Schoenberg’s “Transfigured Night”. Also on the program Bartok’s 3rd Piano Concerto”.
Learn about William Grant Still, also known as the “Dean of Afro-American Composers,” as part of WILL-FM's Classically Black series.
