Coming January 2023
Hosted by Garrett McQueen, Gateways Radio is a one-hour, weekly classical music broadcast featuring outstanding performances and compositions by classical musicians of African descent from around the world.
Combing the globe, Garrett uncovers world-class, exciting and engaging performances by Black classical musicians – from yesterday and today – and brings them, many for the first time, to new audiences across the United States.
Why Gateways Radio?
Unbeknownst to many, musicians of African descent have played a role in classical music from the earliest of times: a Black trumpeter played in the English courts of Henry VII and VIII; Beethoven wrote his famous Kreutzer Violin Sonata for – and premiered it with – Black violinist George Bridgetower; and Black composer, violinist, conductor Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges, was a contemporary of Mozart and conducted the leading orchestra in Paris in the 18th century.
And today, Black classical performers and composers lead lively and vibrant careers from New York to London, from Berlin to Sao Paulo and South Africa to Russia. All this and much more comprise the extraordinary Gateways Radio programming.
Garrett contextualizes the music and musicians and brings their stories to life through anecdotes, historical references and his vast knowledge of the music and peoples of African descent from around the world.
Combing the globe, Garrett uncovers world-class, exciting and engaging performances by Black classical musicians – from yesterday and today – and brings them, many for the first time, to new audiences across the United States.
Why Gateways Radio?
Unbeknownst to many, musicians of African descent have played a role in classical music from the earliest of times: a Black trumpeter played in the English courts of Henry VII and VIII; Beethoven wrote his famous Kreutzer Violin Sonata for – and premiered it with – Black violinist George Bridgetower; and Black composer, violinist, conductor Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges, was a contemporary of Mozart and conducted the leading orchestra in Paris in the 18th century.
And today, Black classical performers and composers lead lively and vibrant careers from New York to London, from Berlin to Sao Paulo and South Africa to Russia. All this and much more comprise the extraordinary Gateways Radio programming.
Garrett contextualizes the music and musicians and brings their stories to life through anecdotes, historical references and his vast knowledge of the music and peoples of African descent from around the world.