Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Discover Classical celebrates this great American by playing music inspired by his life and legacy, as well as works by composers of African ancestry, and music influenced by the Black experience.

6am Hour
Florence Price: Ethiopia's Shadow in America
William Grant Still: Pastorela
Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water

7am Hour
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 2 "Generations"
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Spirituals

8am Hour
Scott Joplin: Weeping Willow
Ulysses Kay: Dances

9am Hour
George Gershwin: "I Loves You, Porgy" from Porgy and Bess
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"

10am Hour
Eric Ball: Rhapsody No. 2 on Negro Spirituals
Harry T. Burleigh: From the Southland

11am Hour
Florence Price: Suite of Dances
William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

12pm Hour
Duke Ellington: Suite from The River
Adolphus Hailstork: Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed

1pm Hour
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Concerto in C Major

2pm Hour
Florence Price: Piano Sonata in E minor
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blue/s Forms

3pm Hour
Harry T. Burleigh: My Lord, What a Mornin'
Irene Britton Smith: Vivace from Sonata for Violin and Piano
William Grant Still: Miniatures

4pm Hour
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air
Scott Joplin: Overture to Treemonisha

5pm Hour
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Duke Ellington: Harlem
Rosamond Johnson: Lift Every Voice and Sing

10pm Hour
William Grant Still: Summerland
Jessie Montgomery: Peace

11pm Hour
Florence Price: Adoration
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River