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s William Levi Dawson (Negro Folk Symphony), and Greensboro, N.C.’s Robert Nathaniel Dett, long famed as the smart, musically sophisticated leader of the Hampton Institute Choir. Composer Dett ...
It's called "Black Swans." (SOUNDBITE OF ROBERT NATHANIEL DETT'S "IN THE BOTTOMS - BARCAROLLE") CORNISH: We spoke to professor Sais Kamalidiin of Howard University about them. He says that ...
Robert L. Morris's And the Angel Spoke was ... though the orientation of the music was resolutely tonal. The Nathaniel Dett Chorale repeats this program at the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio tomorrow ...
The Harlem Chamber Players presented R. Nathaniel Dett’s 1937 oratorio in honor of the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance, for the Juneteenth weekend. By Oussama Zahr The Harlem Chamber ...
Nathaniel Dett finally received a long-overdue standing ovation after the performance earlier this year of his piece, "The Ordering of Moses," at Riverside Church's Juneteenth celebration.
The classically trained, 21-member Nathaniel Dett Chorale has performed for some pretty important peeps. In addition to singing their hearts out at the Canadian embassy on the day of President ...