Silas Huff Interview

 So this is it, ladies and gents, the episode where we discuss the piece for which this podcast was named and the composer that wrote it: William Schuman and his Symphony No. 10 ‘American Muse’! The man literally got letters in the mail telling him either how awful his music was, OR how it had chan…

- In this episode we will look at George Whitefield Chadwick, a member of the so called Boston 6, and dubbed by John Phillip Sousa as the “Pride of New England”. We will hear parts of his single movement work _Aphrodite_ , and find out how closely the music ties to the mythical figure herself. Also…

####Bio - It seems especially difficult to summarize the life and career of William Grant Still. At the simplest, Still performed, conducted, composed, orchestrated, and arranged music, earning him the title “Dean of Afro-American Composers”. But what he was as a man is so much deeper and more comp…