William Levi Dawson

composer

USRooted in: AnnistonCurrently based in: United States1899 - 1990

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Price: Symphony no. 4 / Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

2023

Lyric for Strings • Folksongs for Orchestra • Lilacs for Voice & Orchestra • Negro Folk Symphony

2023

Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony / Kay: Fantasy Variations / Umbrian Scene

2020

Brahms: Serenade no. 1 / Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

2007

Ellington: Suite from "The River" / Harlem / Solitude / Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

2001

The Spirituals of William L. Dawson

1997

Still: Symphony no. 2 "Song of a New Race" / Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony / Ellington: Harlem

1993

Negro Folk Symphony

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William Levi Dawson graduated at Tuskegee Institute and became a Professor and the director of the choir at the same institution, in 1931. He was called the “Dean of African-American Choral composers", for he arranged many Negro spirituals for choirs. The Tuskegee Choir was invited by presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover. It ws the first African-American organization to appear at Constitution Hall, Washington DC (1946). William L. Dawson directed also the Fisk University Choir.

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