Little Rock composer William Grant Still's name looms large as the first opera by a Black composer heads to the Met.

As a large audience of Art Porter Music Education supporters waited for Norman Brown to take the stage Aug. 5 in the Robinson Center's William Grant Still ballroom in Little Rock, mistress of ...

MUSIC The Listeso String Quartet will play for "Candlelight: Holiday Special Featuring 'The Nutcracker' & More," 6 p.m. Friday in the William Grant Still Ballroom, Robinson Center, 426 W.

The Symphony No. 1 by William Grant Still is sometimes called the Afro-American Sympony. Fred talks with Still's granddaughter, and the Sphinx Symphony performs. Kay George Roberts is the ...

The event, held at the William Grant Still Ballroom at the Robinson Center, included a memorial tribute to City Year Little Rock founder and board chair Bruce Moore.

The latest mammoth release by Igor Levit, a new symphonic work by John Luther Adams and music by William Grant Still are among the highlights.

William Grant Still’s ancestors were plantation slaves, working the fields of Mississippi, far from the concert stages of New York and Los Angeles, where he would rise as the preeminent African ...

They are both honored at the Robinson Center, where there is a ballroom named for Mr. Grant Still, and an atrium named after Florence Price.

William Grant Still was the first American to have an opera produced by New York City Opera, and the first African American composer to conduct a major US symphony orchestra – here’s everything you ...

At the Kennedy Center, a program bookended by Beethoven found its center in a symphony by William Grant Still.

As a large audience of Art Porter Music Education supporters waited for Norman Brown to take the stage Aug. 5 in the Robinson Center's William Grant Still ballroom in Little Rock, mistress of ...

African American composer William Grant Still wanted to lift the status of blues music to the highest possible level. He did that with his Symphony Number 1. We'll hear from Still's granddaughter ...