Castle of Our Skins – Past Concerts

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson — String Quartet No. 1 "Calvary"
William L. Dawson — Largo for String Quartet (ed. Charlie Harmon)
Adolphus Hailstork — Songs of Love and Justice
Charles Brown — A Song Without Words
Undine Smith Moore — Love Let the Wind Cry...How I Adore Thee

Brittany J. Green — Selected works

Program includes works by Andre Myers, Janet Baindu Lagah-Bona, Jessie Montgomery, Jordan Davidson, Errollyn Wallen, Adolphus Hailstork, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Joi Harper, Innocent Ndubuisi Okechukwu, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Elizabeth A. Baker — Housetop (world premiere)
Lauren McCall — Quilting Codes (world premiere)
Florence Price — Five Folksongs in Counterpoint (selections)

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Every day from September 13-23, a viola student from a Boston-area youth music program performs a 30-second miniature from the Castle of Our Skins Black Composer Miniature Challenge Vol. 1 Anthology.

Free, digital series exploring the ways some Black American composers have found inspiration in the rich tradition of spirituals.

Program exploring Zimbabwean cultural roots & a personal rite of passage into womanhood. Featuring original works by Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa.

Celebrate Black artistry through music & learn about important stories & figures in black history in this special program also featuring British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Clarinet Quintet.

Family-friendly "edu-tainment" concert featuring string quartets by Black composers that showcase African American spirituals.

Castle of Our Skins & Winsor Music celebrate historically underrepresented Black artists in this concert featuring a world premiere by David Sanford, & works by Hannah Kendall & Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.