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1 Xavier Dubois Foley - Shelter Island*  
2 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blue/s Forms for Solo Violin / i. Plain Blue/s  
3 ii. Just Blue/s  
4 iii. Jettin Blue/s  
5 George Gershwin - Summertime  
6 A Woman is a Sometime Thing  
7 It ain't necessarily so  
8 Bess you is my woman now  
9 William Grant Still: Suite for violin and piano / i. African Dancer  
10 ii. Mother and Child  
11 iii. Garmin  
12 Florence Price / Adoration*  
13 Fantasie No.1 in G minor*  
14 Fantasie No.2 in F# minor  
15 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor arr. Maud Powell - Deep River  
16 Antonin Dvorak: Sonatina in G major / Allegro Risoluto  
17 ii. Larghetto  
18 iii. Scherzo and Trio  
19 Finale: Allegro  
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Today rising star violinist Randall Goosby announces his debut album Roots, (Decca Classics) is set for release on June 25th. The album is an exploration of the music written by Black composers and inspired by Black American culture. The collection is a homage to the pioneering musicians that paved the way for Goosby and his generation of young artists.  The first single "Adoration" was written by the African-American composer Florence Price and is recorded with violin for the first time ever on Roots. The world premiere recording can be heard here. 

  • Pandora Classical Playlist features; Randall Goosby & Zhu Wang in Price: Adoration from Goosby's new Roots release
    Posted At: February 10, 2022 12:00 AM
    Florence Beatrice Price was the first African-American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered her Symphony No. 1 in E minor in 1933. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price lived and worked in Chicago, Atlanta and Little Rock. She was widely unknown in the years after her death in 1953 until the discovery of dozens of her scores in an Illin...
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  • Randall Goosby chats about 'Roots' with The 2nd Street Dreams Audio Network
    Posted At: January 12, 2022 12:00 AM
    Violinist Randall Goosby represents a new, fresh generation of classical musicians. With his debut album ROOTS, he’s redefining and/or adding composers to the traditional canon. He performs the music of mostly African-American composers on the album.LISTEN TO 2nd Street Dreams Audio Network SEGMENTRising star violinist Randall Goosby announces his debut album Roots, (Decca Classics) is set for release on Ju...
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  • Randall Goosby - Roots makes capradio's 'The classical music we loved in 2021'
    Posted At: December 21, 2021 12:00 AM
    As you wrap up your year, here are some of CapRadio Music's classical music hosts' favorite pieces from 2021. Victor Forman, Jennifer Reason and Mike Nelson write…..Classical music can be both timeless and intimately connected to the times we are living through today. As new music is written and old favorites reinterpreted, the music can connect the past to the present and the future. Included on capradio's...
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  • Randall Goosby - Roots makes 'the arts fuse Top Classical Recordings of 2021'
    Posted At: December 20, 2021 12:00 AM
    Today rising star violinist Randall Goosby announces his debut album Roots, (Decca Classics) is set for release on June 25th. The album is an exploration of the music written by Black composers and inspired by Black American culture. The collection is a homage to the pioneering musicians that paved the way for Goosby and his generation of young artists.  The first single "Adora...
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  • Randall Goosby chats about 'Roots' and community engagement / 95.5WHRB
    Posted At: November 4, 2021 12:00 AM

    Randall Goosby's debut album Roots, on Decca Classics is an exploration of the music written by Black composers and inspired by Black American culture. The collection is a homage to the pioneering musicians that paved the way for Goosby and his generation of young artists.  The first single "Adoration" was written by the African-American composer Florence Price...
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  • All Classical Portland reviews; Randall Goosby 'Roots'
    Posted At: November 1, 2021 12:00 AM

    John interviews Randall Goosby, whose debut on the Decca label, "Roots," was released this summer (and is being played on All Classical Portland regularly). The disc is an exploration of music written by Black composers and of composers inspired by Black American culture. Randall tells John Pitman about the importance and responsibility of bringing underrepresented composers into the repertoire, finding ...
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  • Randall Goosby discusses 'Roots' with Classical Radio
    Posted At: October 20, 2021 12:00 AM

    Rising star violinist Randall Goosby recently released his debut album Roots, on Decca Classics. The album is an exploration of the music written by Black composers and inspired by Black American culture. The collection is a homage to the pioneering musicians that paved the way for Goosby and his generation of young artists.  The first single "Adoration" was written by the A...
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  • With 'Roots' Randall Goosby makes a first impression with lasting impact / The Washington Post
    Posted At: September 16, 2021 12:00 AM

    The Washington Post's Michael Andor Brodeur writes....Randall Goosby, the fast-rising 25-year-old star violinist, joins the Baltimore Symphony on Sept. 25 and 26 to play one of the Big Romantic Concertos: Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (Op. 26). "One of the most perfect, perfect pieces," Goosby says on the phone with pure matter-of-factness. "One of the greatest of all time." He sho...
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  • Randall Goosby debuts spectacularly with 'Roots' / WRTI - Classical Album Of The Week
    Posted At: August 30, 2021 12:00 AM

    90.1WRTI's Matt Silver writes......Violinist Randall Goosby's major label debut, Roots, is unique in several ways. It's the first release from a 24-year-old violinist who debuted with the Jacksonville Symphony at nine, shared a stage with the New York Philharmonic at 13, and has called his famous professors at Juilliard-Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho-mentors for the past decade. Then there's th...
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  • Randall Goosby chats about 'Roots' with Spokane Public Radio
    Posted At: August 16, 2021 12:00 AM

    Rising star violinist Randall Goosby has released his debut album; Roots, on Decca Classics. The recording is an exploration of the music written by Black composers and inspired by Black American culture. The collection is a homage to the pioneering musicians that paved the way for Goosby and his generation of young artists.  The first single "Adoration" was written by the African-American composer ...
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  • Randall Goosby - Roots makes 90.9WETA: New classical albums to listen to this summer!
    Posted At: June 29, 2021 12:00 AM

    90.9WETA wraps up Season 2 of Classical Breakdown with some recommended recordings for you to explore this summer. These recently released albums feature a diverse range of composers, styles, ensembles, and even world premiere recordings.  Rising star violinist Randall Goosby releases Roots, an exploration of the music written by Black composers and inspired by Black American culture. The album ...
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  • Randall Goosby - Roots is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: June 28, 2021 12:00 AM

    WFMT's Lisa Flynn writes.....Rising star violinist Randall Goosby presents his debut album, Roots. The album is an exploration of music written by Black composers and inspired by Black American culture. The collection is an homage to the pioneering musicians who paved the way for Goosby and his generation of young artists. Goosby says, "I am so grateful for the opportunity to share this album during ...
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  • Randall Goosby is consistently satisfying in his interpretations of the broad and diverse scope of selections on 'ROOTS' / THE REHEARSAL STUDIO
    Posted At: June 19, 2021 12:00 AM

    This coming Friday Decca will release the debut album of violinist Randall Goosby, born in Memphis, Tennessee, to an African-American father and a Korean mother. The title of the album is Roots, and the overall program is a celebration of the works of Black classical composers. The two exceptions to that legacy involve composers that cultivated their own awareness of such musicians: Antonín Dvo...
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  • Randall Goosby - Classical Music's Underdog / AIR MAIL
    Posted At: June 19, 2021 12:00 AM

    AIR MAIL'S MATTHEW GUREWITSCH writes......Playing Bach and Paganini for other students, Randall Goosby says, "I'd look out and see jaws on the floor. They weren't used to hearing that music, and certainly not from a kid who looked like me." "My parents weren't interested in classical music until I came into the picture," Randall Goosby says on a Zoom call from New York, a pair of designer specs l...
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