Name: Chineke! Orchestra
Start: 2021-08-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-08-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Kalena Bovell

Instrumentalist

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

Piano

Orchestra

Chineke! Orchestra

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Chineke! Orchestra: The Song of Hiawatha, Op.30 Coleridge-Taylor (+3 More)

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The Song of Hiawatha, Op.30

African Suite

Piano Concerto in One Movement

Symphony in A minor

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Britain’s only majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra Chineke! returns for its fourth appearance at the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers.
The Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s overture to his popular cantata based on the tale of a Native American leader quotes the spiritual ‘Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen’. There are further meetings of African and European musical styles in Nigerian composer Fela Sowande’s African Suite and the piano concerto by Florence Price, the first female African-American composer to win renown in America. By contrast, Coleridge-Taylor’s Symphony, written as a 20-year old student of Stanford at London’s Royal College of Music, reveals the influence of his hero, Dvořák.

English

Chineke! Orchestra by Coleridge-Taylor, Sowande, Price, From (2021/2021), Conductor Kalena Bovell, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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