Lenox Avenue (Still)

Lenox Avenue is a series of ten orchestral episodes and a finale composed in 1937 by American composer William Grant Still.: 249 : 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. A related ballet version was composed in 1938, and is about twenty-one minutes long.

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