This isn't intended to be a side note, in fact, it's the result of a sort of last minute epiphany. I had a moment of realization and decided I had to make it happen, since I hadn't approached this blog in such a long time and I was about to renew my participation.
So I was Googling my own blog, because I had actually forgotten the site address. It had been so long and I've been through so much weirdness in the time that I had started this project and time interval where I stopped, I forgot about it and it was a cloudy time. Looking up Greene's and classical, I ended up coming across a different blog with a different Mr. Greene, called AfriClassical, which centers around honoring classical composers of African heritage. Again, I'm just here for the interesting musical discoveries, and it's interesting indeed. The one that I looked into was very very cool, and I am interested to hear much more from this composer, William Grant Still.
This is a simple show of solidarity, because I'm a humanist and humanitarian on a basic level. But also, this is the kind of stuff I'm looking for, it's a beautiful, distinctive, different take on classical music, and it's the type of thing I like finding when plowing through Greene's, and why I fancy myself a musical gemologist, looking through the more common things to find the gems.
When I get home after work, I'll see if he has a listing in that book of mine and update this if so.
[1909] STILL, William Grant
INSTRUMENTALIST, ARRANGER, ADMINISTRATOR
BORN: Woodville, Miss., May, 11, 1895
DIED: Los Angeles, December 3, 1978
Anyway, the links, the links.
https://africlassical.blogspot.com/2022/10/chicago-philharmonic-for-our-2223.html?m=1
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