Be on the listen for Houston Music Highlights, Tuesday through Friday on Classical 91.7! These 6-minute highlights feature local musicians and ensembles such as the Houston Symphony, the Apollo Chamber Players, and numerous others each week. Houston Music Highlights air at 7 AM, and then repeat at 1 PM, 6 PM, and 10 PM.
This week, we celebrate Black History Month with music by pioneering composers like Florence Price and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and great performers like saxophonist Branford Marsalis, pianist Awadagin Pratt, and baritone singer Timothy Jones!
Tuesday
Five Folksongs in Counterpoint – Calvary: Florence Price
Recorded in HPM's Geary Performance Studio on September 19, 2014
Wednesday
Arabesque No. 1: Claude Debussy
The English Chamber Orchestra and Branford Marsalis, saxophone; Andrew Litton, director
Branford Marsalis – Romances for Saxophone (CBS/Sony 42122)
Thursday
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659: Johann Sebastian Bach-Ferruccio Busoni
Awadagin Pratt, piano
Recorded in HPM's Geary Performance Studio on May 1, 2009
Friday
6 Sorrow Songs – "Oh what comes over the sea": Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Five and Twenty Sailormen: Samuel Colridge-Taylor
Timothy Jones, baritone; Katherine Ciscon, piano
Performed at the Moores Opera House on October 5, 2012
