Chineke!/ Heyward/ Angel Blue review – belated premiere for forgotten Black composer

Royal Albert Hall, London A suite of reconstructed dance pieces from 1918 by Edmund Thornton Jenkins made a moving start to Chineke!’s Prom, where soprano Angel Blue sang Barber’s nostalgic Knoxville and Dvořák’s Symphony No 8 made a breathless finale Slowly but surely, our perceptions of what a composer looked like in the early 20th century are widening. Chineke! ’s ongoing mission to unearth music by forgotten Black composers here brought about the belated premiere of Ballet by Edmund Thornton Jenkins, its incomplete manuscript parts reconstructed by his great-nephew Tuffus Zimbabwe . Growin

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