Today is Juneteenth, a celebration that began in Texas in 1865 at the end of slavery. I'll be focusing on African-American composers, conductors and performers today, including William Grant Still, Paul Freeman, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Aynton Marsalis, Billy CHilds, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Althea Waites, Florence Price, Awadagian Pratt, Scott Joplin, George Walker, and André Watts.
Questions? Comments? Email me: llanzilotti@hawaiipublicradio.org
Listen on the radio or join listeners around the world who stream HPR2 in one of two ways:
1. Go to hawaiipublicradio.org. Click on Programs, then HPR-2 Schedule, then find today's Classical Pacific link at 3pm. Information on each album will be displayed as the music plays, often with the cover of the album showing, too. Or -
2. Go to the HPR App on your smart phone (you can download it for free, if you don't already have it). Choose HPR2. As the program plays, you'll see the information on each album, just as you do on the website.
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