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Lenox Avenue (Still)
1937 composition and 1938 ballet by William Grant Still / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenox Avenue is a series of ten orchestral episodes and a finale composed in 1937 by American composer William Grant Still.[1]: 249 [2]: 5 The composition is for orchestra, chorus and announcer; the narration was written by Verna Arvey, wife of composer Still. The first performance was broadcast nationally on radio on May 23, 1937, conducted by Howard Barlow.[3] A related ballet version was composed in 1938, and is about twenty-one minutes long.[3]
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