Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Violinists Rachel Barton Pine and her daughter, Sylvia Pine, visited WFMT to inaugurate WFMT's new family-friendly request program 'Saturday Morning Listener's Choice,' which premieres January 4 at 8:00 am!
Enjoy this performance of two works from forthcoming 'Music by Black Composers Violin Volume 2': 'Such Thanks to Spirits' (1936) from the musical play 'Afiwa' by Nicholas Ballanta (1893-1962) from Sierra Leone, and 'Serenata' from 'A Sertaneja' by the earliest known Black woman composer, Francisca "Chiquinha" Gonzaga (1847-1935) from Brazil.
To make requests and find more information, visit wfmt.com/listenerschoice
For more information about the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation's Music by Black Composers project, visit musicbyblackcomposers.org
Violinists Rachel Barton Pine and her daughter, Sylvia Pine, visited WFMT to inaugurate WFMT's new family-friendly request program 'Saturday Morning Listener's Choice,' which premieres January 4 at 8:00 am!
Enjoy this performance of two works from forthcoming 'Music by Black Composers Violin Volume 2': 'Such Thanks to Spirits' (1936) from the musical play 'Afiwa' by Nicholas Ballanta (1893-1962) from Sierra Leone, and 'Serenata' from 'A Sertaneja' by the earliest known Black woman composer, Francisca "Chiquinha" Gonzaga (1847-1935) from Brazil.
To make requests and find more information, visit wfmt.com/listenerschoice
For more information about the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation's Music by Black Composers project, visit musicbyblackcomposers.org
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