A SPIRITUAL FANTASY
Sat, Mar 04
|Boston Conservatory at Berklee
A Spiritual Fantasy with ProjectSTEP highlights African American composers who had a woven connection with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and William Grant Still: Clarence Cameron White was born five years after Coleridge-Taylor and later studied with him;
Time & Location
Mar 04, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Boston Conservatory at Berklee, 8 Fenway, Boston, MA 02215, USA
About the event
A Spiritual Fantasy with ProjectSTEP highlights African American composers who had a woven connection with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and William Grant Still: Clarence Cameron White was born five years after Coleridge-Taylor and later studied with him; Florence Price was born six years before Grant Still and grew up as neighbors in Arkansas; Frederick Tillis was born the same year audiences first heard Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony. All of the composers were greatly influenced by a truly unique expression of African American strength, resilience, and community: the Negro Spiritual. A Spiritual Fantasy explores these themes in music, knowing the same sense of strength, resilience, and community were pivotal forces that inspired civil rights activist Octavius Catto, whose story is told in the BSO's later performance of The Passion of Octavius Catto.
Saturday March 4, 2023, 6:00-7:00pm @ Boston Conservatory at Berklee