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The BlackPast.org staff have compiled below samplings of many of the performers who are profiled on our Blacks in Classical Music page. If you have a favorite YouTube selection of these artists, please forward it to us at [email protected] and we will post it under your name. Be sure to include the YouTube title and URL for the video in your email.
Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Lauren Anderson Performs Ballet from the Nutcracker
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Kathleen Battle & Christopher Parkening Perform Ave Maria
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, “Violin Concerto in G major, Opus 8-Allegro”
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Carol Brice Sings Johan Sebastian Bach’s Agnus Dei
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Anne Wiggins Brown Sings the Original Summertime from the
1940 Opera “Porgy and Bess”
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Grace Bumbry Performs “Vissi d’arte” from Tosca
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Harry T. Burleigh’s Arrangement of “Deep River” Performed by Julian Joseph
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Misty Copeland Performs Ballet from Don Quixote
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Gloria Davy Performs “Tacea la notte placida” from Il Trovatore
Submitted by Marianne Hanson
The Nathaniel Dett Chorale Performs “Listen to the Lambs”
Submitted by Marianne Hanson
Todd Duncan Sing the Original Unchained Melody from the 1955
Film, “Unchained”
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Paul Freeman Conducts the Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Submitted by Marianne Hanson
Paul Freeman, The Chicago Sinfonietta: 20 Years of Musical Excellence
Submitted by Marianne Hanson
Submitted by Marianne Hanson
Roland Hayes Sings the Negro Spiritual “Go Down Moses”
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Dorothy Maynor sings the aria “Depuis le jour” from Gustave
Charpentier’s opera Louise
Submitted by Olga Bourlin
Robert McFerrin, Sr. Sings Cortigiani [Excerpt]
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Arthur Mitchell and Diane Adams in George Balanchine’s
“Agon.”
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Jessye Norman Sings “Dich teure Halle” by Tannhauser
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Leontyne Price Sings Aida
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Paul Robeson Sings “Ol Man River,” from Showboat
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Paul Robeson Sings Ode to Joy in English and German
Submitted by the Staff of BlackPast.org
William Grant Still’s “Afro-American Symphony” Performed by the Orchestra of the Vienna Opera
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” from Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio, Opus 59
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Movement 1, Violin Concerto Opus 80
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Symphony in A Minor Opus 8
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Shirley Verrett as Dalila “Mon Coeur s’ouvre a ta voix”
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff
Andre Watts Performs “Rachmaninoff Cadenza”
Submitted by the BlackPast.org Staff