Annual Founder’s Concert Honoring Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams, Founder of Four Seasons Arts.
Dr. Williams was one of the first African-American presenters of a major classical music concert series in the United States and it is to him that we offer this special tribute. His love of classical music began as a child when he attended concerts by legendary artists such as tenor Roland Hayes and contralto Marian Anderson, In 1958, at a time when the classical music world, and much of the rest of society, was racially segregated, he began presenting artists of all races and organizing racially diverse audiences. Over 40-plus years in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, he introduced to the world some of the finest musicians of our time.
AMADI AZIKIWE, violinist and violist, is currently the music director of the Harlem Symphony Orchestra.