André Raphel conducts Coleridge-Taylor, Still, and Caine featuring the Uri Caine Trio

Caine’s jazz trio and the BSO are joined by multifaceted vocalist Barbara Walker and the newly formed Catto Chorus for this moving piece. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a British composer of African descent, wrote his entertaining, colorful four-movement Petite Suite de Concert in 1910. In 1931, William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1, Afro-American, was the first symphony by an African-American to be performed by a significant American orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic. Arthur Fiedler led performances with the Boston Pops in 1937.

André Raphel, conductor
Barbara Walker, vocalist
Uri Caine Trio
The Catto Chorus
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR – Petite Suite de Concert
STILL – Symphony No. 1, Afro-American
Uri CAINE – The Passion of Octavius Catto