Here's a sampling of music by composers of African heritage. Most are available at Amazon.com, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Borders Books & Music or by mail as noted.

        • I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes: A Celebration of the Music of Adolphus Hailstork. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Morgan State University Choir, Daniel Hege and Nathan Carter, conductors. Includes Done Made My Vow. BSO, CD: $15 plus shipping. Phone orders: (410) 783-8000.

        • William Grant Still. Works include Afro-American Symphony; Kaintuck'; Dismal Swamp; and Olly Wilson's Expansions III. Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra, Jindong Cai, conductor; Richard Fields, piano. Centaur, CD: $15.99.

        • Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Encore Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Hege, conductor; Rachel Barton, violin. Concertos by Chevalier de Meude-Monpas; Chevalier de Saint-Georges; Joseph White; and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Cedille Records, $15.99.

        • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume I. The Chicago Sinfonietta, Paul Freeman, conductor. Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Fela Sowande, William Grant Still. Cedille Records, CD: $15.99. (See review of Vol. II.)

        • You Can Tell the World: Songs by African-American Women Composers. Sebronette Barnes, soprano; Elise Auerbach, piano. Ms. Barnes, former Robert S. Duncanson Artist-in-Residence at the Taft Museum of Art, performs songs by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Julia Perry, Zenobia Powell Perry, Betty Jackson King, Jeraldine Saunders Herbison, Sharon J. Willis and Lena J. McLin. Senrab Records, $14.99.

        • Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony; Ellington: Suite from the River. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi, conductor. Chandos, CD: $15.99.

        • William Grant Still, Symphony No. 2; Ellington, Harlem; William Dawson, Negro Folk Symphony. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi, conductor. Chandos, CD: $15.99.

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