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Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745 — 1799) : $50 - $149

​Composer, conductor, violinist, and prize-winning fencer, Saint-Georges remains the only world class musician
​to have taught music to Marie Antoinette and to have fought in the French Revolution.
Anonymous
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Martina Anderson
Peter Askim
Stephen Baird
Katherine Balch
Megan Bell
Regina Harris Baiocchi
Megan Bisceglia
Emily Bloomenthal
​Sara O'Brien
Allen Callahan
Daniel Callahan
Scott Chamberlin
DJ Cheek
Courtney Closson
Theodore Daiber & Joan Faulkner
Margaret Darling
Peter Delano
Emily Doolittle
Martha O'Donnell
David Drexler
Jason Eckardt
​Carrie Eldridge-Dickson

​Christie Finn
Ena Fox
​Anthony R. Green
​Linda Green

Joshua Hahn
Becca Hasko
Gregory Hasko
​Jason Hasko
Betsy Hinkle
​Maureen Hollis

Julia Murphy
Ellen Hinkle
​Ashley Horne

Eddie Kass
Sam Kelder
Tracy Kraus
​Jeff Lee
Andrew List

Quinn MacKenzie
Erica Marano
Heath Marlow
Timothy Mauthe

Karen McConomy
​Kayleigh Miller
Andrea Moore
Mark Mullins
Julia Murphy
George Nickson
Joy Cline Phinney
Lisa Prosch
Elana Riffle

Mona Roberts
​Annemarie Schubert
Lawrence Siegel
Dawn Simmons

Marshunda Smith
Joseph Snodgrass
Susan Stott
Chris Ten Eyck

Pamela Tillis
Janet Underhill
Nina Vansuch

Michi Wiancko
Steve Wogaman
Kika Wright

Florence Price (1887 — 1953) : $150 - $299

An alumna of New England Conservatory, Price became the first Black woman to have an orchestral work
​performed by a major symphony orchestra, and was also a teacher to Margaret Bonds.
Ray Blount & Gail Jackson-Blount
Armando Castellano
Catherine Cosbey
Suzanne Ducker
​Steve Farrell

Mary Ferrillo
​Toni Lester
​John McDonald

Francesca McNeeley
Arthur Rishi
​​Janet Spangenberg
Margot Schwartz

L. Viola Kinney (c. 1890 — 1945) : $300 - $499

​Lady Viola Kinney’s only surviving work, the incredibly moving and prize-winning “Mother’s Sacrifice” for solo piano,
​is among the few works of published music by Black women composers before 1910.
Hunter Ewen
Philip Lima
Theodore R. Murphy
​Holly Newman


William Grant Still (1895 —1978) : $500 - $999

“The Dean of Afro-American Composers,” Still is a prestigious composer-conductor whose career included
​many firsts for Black musicians. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Charles Anderson
John Carey
​WCVB/Channel Five​
​Marcus Thompson

Marian Anderson (1897 — 1993) : $1,000 - $4,999

Internationally acclaimed contralto, Marian Anderson performed in the world’s most prestigious venues as well as
​on the Lincoln Memorial Steps for an audience of 75,000, and millions more on the radio.
Jonathan Aibel
Dr. Robert Lawson Dixon-Gordon & Patricia Gordon

Dimitra Emmanouilidou
Jo Frances Myer

Robert Gordon
​George Luse & Lynn DuVal Luse

Stephanie Neal-Johnson

COLERIDGE TAYLOR-PERKINSON (1932 — 2004) : $5,000+​

Composer, conductor, and pianist, “Perk’s” music can be heard in concert halls as well as in films,
​including “A Warm December” (1973), starring Sidney Poitier.


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