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Live at 蜜芽传媒 Proms: Chineke! Orchestra. Britain鈥檚 only majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra with conductor Kalena Bovell and pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason in Florence Price's Piano Concerto and Coleridge-Taylor's Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha鈥檚 Wedding Feast 鈥� overture
Fela Sowande: African Suite
Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement

at approx 8.30pm
INTERVAL Catherine Carr joins Petroc to talk about the range of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's musical output, from chamber music to opera.

c. 8.55pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Chineke! Orchestra, Kalena Bovell (conductor)

The Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor鈥檚 overture to his popular cantata based on the tale of a Native American leader quotes the spiritual 鈥楴obody knows the trouble I鈥檝e seen鈥�. There are further meetings of African and European musical styles in Nigerian composer Fela Sowande鈥檚 African Suite and the piano concerto by Florence Price, the first female African-American composer to win renown in America. By contrast, Coleridge-Taylor鈥檚 Symphony, written as a 20-year old student of Stanford at London鈥檚 Royal College of Music, reveals the influence of his hero, Dvo艡谩k.