COLUMNISTS Music to the ears
Posted: November 22, 2009 at 4:42 a.m.
While speaking with a group of visitors recently, I mentioned that the primary black male and female composers of the 20th Century were Arkansans. I could tell that my listeners at least recognized the name William Grant Still, who was born in Mississippi in 1895 but grew up in Little Rock and went on to become known as “the dean of American Negro composers.”
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Editorial, Pages 82 on 11/22/2009
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