https://www.lagrangesymphony.org/more-about-william-levi-dawson/ Enriching our Community Through Music Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:07:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.lagrangesymphony.org/more-about-william-levi-dawson/#comment-719 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:17:03 +0000 https://www.lagrangesymphony.org/?p=10700#comment-719 […] After intermission and another stage change, Chalton Askew, Executive Director of Racial Trustbuilding and Richard Prior, LSO Music Director and Conductor introduced the next piece. They announced what we were wanting to hear, William Dawson’s brilliant 1932 Negro Folk Symphony. In these preliminary remarks, Mr. Askew and Maestro Prior gave some of the history behind this work, some musical phrases to recognize within the piece, and how it is happily being rediscovered. [If you would like to read a bit more history about William Dawson, check out this LSO blog post.] […]

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