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About Carlos Simon
"Carlos Simon is a young composer on the rise, with an ear for social justice."
–NPR Music
Carlos Simon is a GRAMMY-nominated composer, curator and activist. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, his compositions range from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with influences of jazz, gospel, and neo-romanticism. Simon is the Composer-in-Residence for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Four Black American Dances
July 3, 2026
Reference Recordings® proudly presents Manfred Honeck’s masterly interpretation of Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, (Op. 95) “From the New World”, and the first commercial release of Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances. This album was recorded live in February 2025 in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound.
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“A modern major composer: an artist whose windows are thrown wide open to the world, and whose musical scope of late lands like a grand panorama of American life.”
– The Washington Post
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