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Blue Steel

Music by William Grant Still

Blue Steel is a 1934 opera by American composer William Grant Still. Overall, the music assumes a jazz form, harmonically and rhythmically, although at other times, the music merges into the form of a Negro spiritual.

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About the Composer

William Grant Still is the composer of record for this opera.

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