Black composer Anthony Lavelle Barfield wrote the three movement "Meditations" for trombone and piano for Joseph Alessi. Meditations was premiered at the 2007 Alessi seminar at the University of New Mexico. In this work, Barfield captures the minds…
Black composer Florence Price composed the "Sonata in E Minor" for piano in 1932. The composition won First Price in the 1932 Rodman Wanamaker music contest, the same year her Symphony in E Minor won overall honours.
Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga's "Dancing with the Shadow" was composed in 1990 for flute, clarinet, violin, piano and percussion (temple blocks, 2 cow bellws, 2 Atun Pans, shaker, Sus cymbal or Tam tam) Commissioned by Lontano/Sue MacLennan Dance…
Black composer William Grant Still (known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers") composed "Songs for Bassoon and Piano", which were arranged by Alexa Still. The work has three movements:I. Bayou HomeII. If You Should GoIII. Song for the Lonely
Black composer Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III's compositional style blends musical ideas from both the African American and European traditions. Hailstork's "Sonata for Trumpet and Piano" was composed for the husband and wife team of trumpeter…
