Program & Artists
William Grant Still Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race
Artwork from the exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Leon Botstein conductor
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Concert Details
Discussion, on-screen artworks, and musical excerpts
Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now
Intermission
20 min
William Grant Still Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race
35 min
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Q&A with the audience
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William Grant Still Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race
Image: Jacob Lawrence (American, Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917–2000 Seattle, Washington). The Shoemaker (detail), 1945. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 22 3/4 × 31 in. (57.8 × 78.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, George A. Hearn Fund, 1946 (46.73.2). © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.