William Grant Still Jr. (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets...

and her maternal grandparents were the African-American composer, William Grant Still; and the white Russian-Jewish pianist, Verna Arvey. Headlee graduated...

The William Grant Still Arts Center is located at 2520 S West View Street in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1977, WGSAC has offered music and art...

recorded it. The song has been called "the jazzman's Hamlet". Composer William Grant Still arranged a version of the song in 1916 while working with Handy....

swing. It is cataloged as Roud Folk Song Index No. 11765. Composer William Grant Still arranged a version of the song in 1916 while working with Handy.: 310 ...

"Afro-American" and Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major, is a 1930 composition by William Grant Still, the first symphony written by an African American and performed...

William Still (1821–1902) was an abolitionist and member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. William Still may also refer to: William Grant Still...

Gottschalk, 1982 The Green Table, Fritz Cohen, 1932 La Guiablesse, William Grant Still, 1927 La Guirlande de Campra, Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Jean-Yves...

center, on the southeast corner of Third Street and Fairfax Avenue. William Grant Still Residence, located at 1262 South Victoria Avenue; Los Angeles Historic-Cultural...

Lucia Dlugoszewski, André Jolivet, Colin McPhee, James Tenney, and William Grant Still. See: List of music students by teacher: T to Z#Edgard Varèse. Composers...

who is best known for her musical collaborations with her husband William Grant Still, a musician and composer. Verna Arvey was born in Los Angeles, the...

Roll Morton Ma Rainey Noble Sissle Bessie Smith Victoria Spivey William Grant Still Fats Waller Ethel Waters Chick Webb Bert Williams Fess Williams Charles...

works of J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Mozart and Verdi; the art songs of William Grant Still, Undine Smith Moore, Fernando Obradors, Samuel Barber, Emmanuel Chabrier;...

playwright. She is best known for two collaborations with composer William Grant Still: And They Lynched Him on a Tree (1940) and Plain-Chant for America...

opening melody of the third movement of William Grant Still's Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American." In the 1920s, Still played in the pit orchestra for Shuffle...

of five orchestral suites composed in 1957 by American composer William Grant Still. The composition is described as follows: [The work depicts] life...

orchestral episodes and a finale composed in 1937 by American composer William Grant Still.: 249 : 5  The composition is for orchestra, chorus and announcer;...

"Autochthonous", is a 1947 composition in four movements by American composer William Grant Still. The work was first performed on March 18, 1951, by the Oklahoma...

Paul Laurence", American National Biography Online. Still, Judith Anne (1990). William Grant Still: A Voice High-Sounding. Flagstaff, Arizona: The Master-Player...

Race", is a 1937 composition in four movements by American composer William Grant Still. The work was first performed on December 10, 1937, by the Philadelphia...

William Grant & Sons Ltd. is a family-owned company that distills Scotch whisky and other selected categories of spirits based in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire...

composition in five movements composed in 1948 by American composer William Grant Still. The composition was originally created for trio (flute, oboe, and...

Highway 1, USA is an American opera in one act with music by William Grant Still and libretto by Verna Arvey. Originally composed during the 1940s with...

is a 1930 symphonic poem in three movements by American composer William Grant Still. The work, originally scored for chamber orchestra, was first performed...

American composer William Grant Still. The composition, exploring themes of sorrow, hope, and prayer, is a work derived from Still's studies with the modernist...

Symphony", is a 1958 composition in four movements by American composer William Grant Still. The work was first performed on February 12, 1984 by the North Arkansas...

Summerland, for chamber orchestra, by American composer William Grant Still. According to Judith Anne Still, the composer's daughter, "The three segments of...

husband was a fellow teacher, William Grant Still. They married in 1894 and had a son, composer and conductor William Grant Still Jr. Her first husband died...

1945 (rev 1970) composition in four movements by American composer William Grant Still. The work was first performed on November 9, 1970 by the Oberlin...

performance of La traviata at the New York City Opera". In 1955 William Grant Still conducted the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra and became the first...