Southampton Recorded Music Society Event on Black Classical Music “was a great success”

[African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 1; Danse Nègre From African Suite (6:14); Petite Suite de Concert (13:36); Chicago Sinfonietta; Paul Freeman, Conductor; Cedille 90000 055 (2000)]

AfriClassical recently posted “Southampton Recorded Music Society Presents Black Classical Music July 4”. It explained that the presentation would be made by Annamarie Ewing, who plays baroque and classical recorder music in the South of England and is webmaster of http://www.BlackClassics.co.uk Today we heard from Annamarie by E-mail:

“The presentation I gave on Friday 4^th July for the Southampton Recorded Music Society was a great success and generated much interest. The evening was well attended, and the audience was treated to a feast of music punctuated with fascinating as well as entertaining composer histories. Music by Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges was heard, in most cases for the first time, and greeted with enthusiasm. Revelations about George Bridgetower and the ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata were received with great interest. Anticipating Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s most well-known work, the audience was also offered a selection of other less familiar music for them to explore and enjoy. Many questions followed, as did the feeling that everyone had experienced a very special evening.” [George Bridgetower, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges are profiled at AfriClassical.com]