Lenox Avenue (Still)

William Grant Still in 1949, photographed by Carl Van Vechten

Lenox Avenue is a series of ten orchestral episodes and a finale composed in 1937 by American composer William Grant Still.[1]: 249 [2]: 5  The composition is for orchestra, chorus and announcer; the narration was written by Verna Arvey, wife of composer Still. The first performance was broadcast nationally on radio on May 23, 1937, conducted by Howard Barlow.[3] A related ballet version was composed in 1938, and is about twenty-one minutes long.[3]

  1. ^ Horne, Aaron (1996). Brass Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29826-4.
  2. ^ Soll, Beverly (2005). I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-789-2.
  3. ^ a b Smith, Catherine Parson (2000). William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. pp. 333–334.