Capital City Hues: Article One – WCO Launches the Black Composers CD Project: Putting Black Composers on the Classical Music Map

For the past couple of years, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra has been quietly working behind the scenes on a project that will bring Black classical music to the forefront of the classical music world through the Black Composer CD Project. It hired Black composer Dr. Bill Banfield who is its composer-in-residence and is identifying Black composers to participate in the project and reached out to Albany Records, an internationally renowned classical music recording and distribution company.