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In celebration of National Poetry Month, "Words and Music of Black America," Wed 4/16 @ 12:00pm

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Published March 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM EDT

Great composers who changed the course of classical music history.

In recognition of National Poetry Month, host Andrea Blain presents a special program pairing music and texts by Black composers and poets that raise issues of civil rights, social justice, racial divides and freedom in diverse and sometimes surprising ways.

Composers may include:

· Florence Price: who set the words of poets Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Langston Hughes to music along with some of her own poetry.

· Margaret Bonds: who has also worked with the poetry of Langston Hughes as well as Countee Cullen and others.

· Harry Thacker Burleigh’s setting of spirituals and poetry.

· William Grant Still

· Coleridge Taylor Perkinson