Black composer Ronald Roxbury completed "Two Songs of Walt Whitman" in the final weeks of his life. As included on Bridge Records' website: "“Goodbye My Fancy” is a lover’s farewell, and is set as a flowing barcarolle. “Here the Frailest Leaves”…
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 Justin Holland is one of the most important American guitarists of his generation and (as written on the Amaranth Publishing website) one of the first Black men to contribute to the classical guitar.
