Black History Spotlight

Hazel Scott was a piano-playing child prodigy, activist and singer. She attended the Juilliard School of Music at the age 8 years old, and starred on Broadway and in Hollywood films.

Harry Burleigh was the first black composer to help develop a characteristically American style of music; He wrote the first formal orchestral arrangements for more than 100 Negro spirituals.

George Augustus Bridgetower was a master violinist, composer and respected keyboard teacher. He is also known for his association with Ludwig van Beethoven.

Joseph Douglass, the favorite grandson of prominent American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, had a career in classical music that spanned more than three decades.

Florence Beatrice Price was an award-winning pianist and composer who was the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony.