Listen to the concert live on IPR starting at 10:45 a.m. ET.
Classical Roots has celebrated the contributions of African American composers and artists for nearly fifty years.
This season with the DSO, hear new music from Shelley Washington, who focuses "on exploring emotions and intentions by finding their root cause."
Saxophonist Steven Banks, "one of the transformational musicians of the twenty-first century" (Seen and Heard International) performs a new concerto written for him by Grammy Award-winner Billy Childs.
View the full program here.
The live Detroit Symphony Orchestra broadcasts are a service of WRCJ and Detroit Public TV, in collaboration with WKAR, WCMU, WMUK and Interlochen Public Radio.
The broadcasts are hosted on-site by WRCJ's Dave Wagner and Peter Whorf. Nancy Deneen is the local host.
