Adoration (7+)

Concentrating on the late 19th and early 20th century with works by Dvořák, Brahms and Gerswhin, Mroivili and Oesi also present music by classical composers of colour from that same era. From England there’s Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and from the United States there are Florence Price, William Grant Still and Robert Nathaniel Dett. Although these composers had a strong influence on their contemporaries, it is only in recent years that the wider public is hearing their names and their music. Oesi and Mroivili are also adding traditional Afro-American works to the programme that had a clear impact on Dvořák and Gershwin, giving the present-day audience a better understanding of the context of their work.