Sunday, November 26, 2023
7:00pm
Britain’s Chineke! Orchestra comes to WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston! Founded in 2015, the orchestra “champions change and celebrates diversity through high-level professional performance opportunities and career development for Black and ethnically diverse classical performers.” At the center of the concert is Stewart Goodyear’s Callaloo: A Caribbean Suite, which draws on the composer and pianist's roots in Trinidad through crackling Calypso and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Andrew Grams also conducts works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Price in a concert The Boston Globe described as one of “superb musicianship and a sense of unbridled, authentic joy.”
Chineke! Orchestra
Andrew Grams, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
Samuel COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Othello suite, Op. 79
Stewart GOODYEAR Callaloo: A Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra
Florence PRICE Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Recorded on March 22, 2023, at NEC's Jordan Hall
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See upcoming Celebrity Series of Boston concerts
Learn more about the Chineke! Foundation