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Afromodernism: Music of the African Diaspora

Name: Afromodernism: Music of the African Diaspora
Start: 2024-10-18T19:30:00
Location: David Geffen Hall

New York Philharmonic

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Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances pays homage to the wide range of Black American dance traditions while Nathalie Joachim’s newly-penned cello concerto written for Seth Parker Woods honors the transformation of African fashion. Driving rhythms of David Baker’s Kosbro are followed by William Grant Still's Autochthonous Symphony, which portrays, in his words, “the fusion of musical cultures in North America.”

Program

William Grant Still - Symphony No. 4

Nathalie Joachim - Had To Be

Carlos Simon - Four Black American Dances

Composer

Participants

Thomas Wilkins

Conductor

Seth Parker Woods

Cello

New York Philharmonic

Producer