The coffee break focuses on the bright, inventive music of Trent Johnson, a composer and organist who lives in Montclair, NJ (Montclair seems to attract numerous American composers).

Why current composers have to be flexible in writing all genres of music to be successful. We listen to an e minor piano sonata of Florence Price, the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. In closing our series on composers of African descent, we listen to "Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed," Adolphus Hailstork's extraordinary homage to Martin Luther King.

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