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Commemorations: The "Music and the Arts: Still Our Only Future" conference will commemorate two significant historical and musical events in American music:
The 50th anniversary of Still�s internationally-renowned work and pioneering composition, �The Afro-American Symphony� (composed in 1929).
And the upcoming 75th anniversary of William Grant Still�s triumphant stand on the Hollywood Bowl�s stage as the first African-American to conduct a major American orchestra (2011).


William Grant Still, Hollywood Bowl 1936

William Grant Still became the first African-American to conduct a major American orchestra when he led the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl in 1936. Still�s orchestral masterpiece, �The Afro-American Symphony� (composed in 1929) was featured at the history-making event. �The Afro-American Symphony� stands as an internationally-renowned work that was the first significant serious composition to bring the Blues into the symphonic realm. In addition, this composition by Still was also the first serious symphonic work to incorporate the use of the banjo.