At 8:30 am every weekday in February, WFMT host LaRob K. Rafael will present and introduce a piece by a Black musician or composer. Enjoy the second week’s programming below, and delve into subsequent weeks here: (2/13-2/17; 2/20-2/24; 2/27-2/28).
Black Music Spotlight (2/6-2/10)
Errollyn Wallen
Playlist
Monday, February 6
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Sussex Landscape, Op.27
Chineke! Orchestra: Fawzi Haimor, conductor
Tuesday, February 7
Undine Smith Moore: Afro-American Suite
Mallarme Chamber Players
Wednesday, February 8
Florence Price: Ethiopia’s Shadow in America
New York Youth Symphony: Michael Repper, conductor
Thursday, February 9
Margaret Bonds: “Sinner, Please Don’t Let this Harvest Past”/Hold On
Leontyne Price, soprano; Rust College Choir; Musicality; Lara Downes, piano
Friday, February 10
Errollyn Wallen: “See that I am God”
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge