Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Women Composers: Justice in Music @detroitsymphony | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 20 minutes ago.
The concert hall has historically featured too few women composers, but now, a growing number of women are leading the development of orchestral music! "Women Composers: Justice in Music” features two DSO-commissioned works that emphasize important historical and present-day struggles for equality. Check out our Student Mini-Guide for the performance, with accompanying lessons and activities, here.

Music:
Juliet Palmer Oil & Water (excerpt)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Originally performed June 9, 2019 (world premiere)
Commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as a component of the Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers

Nkeiru Okoye Black Bottom
Tribute 1: Shout
Two Shops on Hastings
Tribute 2: Moan
5461 Brush Street
Tribute 4: Dance
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Wilkins, conductor
Sumayya Ali, soprano
Charlotte Small-Chestnut, mezzo-soprano
Vincent Davis, tenor
Markel Reed, baritone
Originally performed March 7, 2020 (world premiere)
Commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with a grant from The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation