Afro - American Chamber Music Society Orchestra

AACMSO is an aggregate of 4 to 40 consummate musicians dedicated to the preservation of classical music by Black Composers of the diaspora founded by Janise White in 1988. The Afro-American Chamber Music Society has presented Black Symphony Concerts debuting on KFAC and later on KUSC in 1989 to the present, reviving a plethora of works by historic... composers notably Le Chevalier de St Georges, Francis Johnson, William Postlewaite, James Hemmenway, Florence Price, John E. Price, Fela Sowande, Jose Mauricio Nuñes Garcia, Carlos Gomes, Lucien Lambert, Ignatius Sancho, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Julia Amanda Perry, Philippa Duke Schuyler and William Grant Still. They also commissioned and premiered works by living composers Ed Bland, Gertrude Rivers-Robinson, Barbara Sherrill, Zenobia Powell Perry, William Henderson, Joyce Solomon Moorman, Jeraldine Herbison, Howlett Smith, Stephen James Taylor, Frederick Tillis, Price, Christian Horton, Charles Ingram, James Lee and Shirley Thompson among others. AACMSO has toured California Colleges and Universities with Judith Still; appeared with Roots author, Alex Haley; guest conductors Denis DeCoteau, Kermit Moore and Michael Morgan. The orchestra has performed at the Blackburn Art Gallery of Howard University for the King Monument Celebration Concerts, San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora, California African American Museum Concerts, Museum of Latin American Art Black History Festivals, Los Angeles Music Center Concerts for the BEEM Foundation, Los Angeles Convention Center for the National Baptist Convention, Medici Awards, DaCamera Society Concerts, over 100 Los Angeles School Concerts (ICAP), National Association of Musicians Convention in Virginia, Los Angeles and Atlanta, University of Southern California Fisher Gallery, USC Hancock Hall with Dr. William Henderson; USC Bovard with Denis DeCoteau, UCLA Schoenberg with Michael Morgan, USC Bovard Auditorium with Dance Theatre of Harlem, AMNA (Africa Meets North America) Festivals at UCLA Schoenberg Hall, New York ...Read More