William Grant Still (1895-1978),
http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Still.html,
is featured at AfriClassical.com
The Daily Star
Oneonta, New York
The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival will present three concerts the weekend of Aug. 4-6, featuring the Jasper String Quartet, pianist Gilles Vonsattel, and flutist and festival artistic director Linda Chesis.
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At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6, at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, Vonsattel will make his festival debut in a program called “Folk Inspirations” with the Jasper String Quartet and flutist Linda Chesis. The concert will feature another Dvořák masterwork, the Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81, along with Beethoven’s Seven Variations on “God Save the King,” the Summerland Folk Song Suite by William Grant Still, and Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues by Frederic Rzewski, according to a media release.
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Thanks so much, Bill, so glad to get these blogs. [Judith Anne Still]
Comment by email:
Thanks so much, Bill, so glad to get these blogs. [Judith Anne Still]
