Randall Goosby | 4 Black Composers You Should Know | Classic FM

Star American violinist Randall Goosby, a passionate advocate for diversity in classical music, talks about the lives and music of four brilliant Black composers: William Grant Still, Florence Price, Joseph Boulogne, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
“For me, personally, music has been a way for me to inspire others,” Goosby has said. The young artist plays a 1735 Guarneri del Gesù violin, loaned by the Stradivari Society, of which he has been honoured as a ‘Rising Star’.
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[@vivijd14]

This was fascinating! Thank you so much Randall and Classic FM. I look forward learning more about them and discovering others unknown to me! (Also, your playing is exquisite) xox, from Montréal.

[@antoniodowling3951]

Yes! More resources like this, please!

[@users79]

Thank you for the beautiful introduction!

[@geoffmiller6538]

Great intro into these musicians, looking forward to seeing you in London next week 🎻👏

[@ddq57sm64]

Come to Seattle!!!!

[@momaycock1087]

Excellent. Thank you ❤

[@sophiadlc8690]

Yess William GS and Florence Price finally get their pride and glory!!

[@marcroft2559]

Wow, thank you!!

[@thavibu]

Excellent

[@BrandiKellam]

Amazing video! Where can the Bologne composition be found? I couldn’t find it online by searching the title used here. I’d love to learn to play it.

[@arielboyce6737]

I’ve been looking too… can’t find it either.

[@real_randy]

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@pyotrskotnicki7098]

From what I know theese people were all human, not black composers...

[@andrewjohnson8232]

Tell that to the lawmakers, politicians, race scientists, philosophers, plantation owners, academics, historians, bankers, colonial militias, religious leaders, social mobs...

[@pyotrskotnicki7098]

@@andrewjohnson8232So black people are not human? What are you trying to say?

[@MBB681]

@@pyotrskotnicki7098 What he's trying to say is that Black representation in classical music is lacking because most people may not have heard of Black composers especially in classical music

[@luxio6765]

Maybe because black people were more invested in Jazz and were a lot more succesful there than any othrr. There is no racism in music - only choices. As you can see some people have chosen classical music and have appeared in this video. Cheers

[@MBB681]

@@luxio6765 You completely missed my point and I’m not gonna explain it to you again

[@homeskillet9802]

Why is their skin colour important?

[@agendarecords2530]

Why is it not?

[@yush4673]

Because it is a group of people that isnt really known for music of this genre but very much known for others so its interesting to know how these peoples music sounds

[@kiaraeijo]

It’s important because there’s a lot of discrimination in the classical music world and some orchestras are struggling to get younger audiences to come to their concerts because a lot of them play the same repertoire by what some people call “dead white composers”

[@homeskillet9802]

@@kiaraeijo You seriously think that playing music composed by white people qualifies as "discrimination". If you don't like listening to music because of the composer's skin colour, that's YOUR problem, not the orchestra's and not the concert venue's. There is no discrimination in classical music, stop being dumb.

[@dulvab9968]

Do you know how many white supremacists there are in the Classical world? Its too much and it drives people away from listening to morr classical