Royal Scottish National Orch/ Gray - Dawson Still & Walker: African American VoicesThe Royal Scottish National Orchestra teams up with it's Assistant Conductor Kellen Gray to record works by three of the twentieth century's greatest African American voices. Released to coincide with Black History Month, the two symphonies by William Levi Dawson and William Grant Still proved to be fundamental in the utilization of Afro American idioms within the symphonic form. Each composer focused on one of the two original staples of African

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