A Spiritual Fantasy
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A Spiritual Fantasy highlights African American composers who share a connection to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and William Grant Still. Clarence Cameron White was Still's student; Florence Price was his neighbor in Arkansas; and Frederick Tillis was born the same year audiences first heard Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony. All were greatly influenced by the African American spiritual, a truly unique expression of African American strength, resilience, and community. A Spiritual Fantasy explores these qualities in music—pivotal forces that inspired the Philadelphia civil rights activist Octavius Catto, whose story is told in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 8:00 p.m. performance of The Passion of Octavius Catto.
Copresented by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Conservatory at Berklee.