William Grant Still - Selected Compositions

Selected Compositions

• From the Land of Dreams (1924, believed lost until 1997)
• Levee Land (1925)
• From the Black Belt (1926)
• La Guiablese, ballet (1927)
• Sahdji, ballet (1930)
• Africa (1930)
• Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" (1930)
• A Deserted Plantation (1933)
• Blue Steel, opera (1934)
• Symphony in G minor (1937)
• Lenox Avenue, for radio announcer, chorus, & orch. (1937)
• Seven Traceries (1939)
• And They Lynched him on a Tree (1940)
• Miss Sally's Party, ballet (1940)
• Can'tcha line 'em, for orchestra (1940)
• Old California, for orchestra (1941)
• Troubled Island, opera, produced 1949 (1937–39)
• A Bayou Legend, opera (1941)
• A Southern Interlude, opera (1942)
• Incantation and Dance, for oboe & pf.
• In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy (1943)
• Suite for Violin & Piano, including the movement later arranged for String Orchestra as Mother and Child (1943)
• Festive Overture (1944)
• Poem for Orchestra (1944)
• Symphony No. 5, "Western Hemisphere" (1945)
• Wailing Women, for soprano and chorus (1946)
• Symphony No. 4, "Autochthonous" (1947)
• Grief, originally titled by Still as Weeping Angel (1953)
• Danzas de Panama (Dances of Panama) (1953)
• The Little Song That Wanted to Be a Symphony (1954)
• Little Red Schoolhouse (1957)
• The American Scene (1957)
• Ennanga (1958)
• Highway 1 U.S.A., opera (1963)