Black composer Jeffrey Mumford's "A Wind of Suspended Prominences" for clarinet and piano was premiered by clarinetist William Powell and pianist Zita Carno on April 17, 1981.
Black composer Joyce Solomon Moorman's "Three Pieces for Flute" was written in 1980.The score and recordings are available in the sources. See her Soundcloud profile for more music: https://soundcloud.com/jsm-13.
Black composer Margaret Bonds composed "The Ballad of the Brown King" in the early 1950s. A Cantata, it is one of her most frequently composed works. The Ballad was written in honor of the African king Balthazar, to text by Langston Hughes. It was…
Black composer Margaret Bonds composed "Troubled Water" for piano. As Joel Fan describes in the comments on recorded performance on YouTube, "The poet Maya Angelou described "Troubled Water" as one of Margaret Bonds masterpieces. Based on the…