Joel Thompson is an Atlanta composer, pianist, conductor, and educator moderating live stream conversation Black Women Composers Making an Impact Today-Part 2 https://app.idagio.com/live/event/movers-and-shapers-in-classical-music-black-women-composers-making-an-impact.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra digital concerts include music by composers of African descent: Philip Herbert, George Walker, William Grant Still, Chevalier De Saint-Georges, Adolphus Hailstork, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and Florence Price. Thursday September 10PHILIP HERBERT: Elegy: In Memoriam – Stephen Lawrence. DSO strings are featured in Philip Herbert’s remembrance of a Black British teenager murdered in an act…
Dr. Michael Cooper shared his first publication of Florence Price’s piano suite “Snapshots” recorded by Robin Arrigo! Listen to it here https://youtu.be/64F1KwvB9vY . To learn more about the piece (which is nowhere discussed in any of the published literature about Price), specifically what it teaches us about Price as pianist-storyteller, see Dr. Cooper post here https://bit.ly/314AuQV or here https://bit.ly/3kYuAbV.
KALEIDOSCOPE CHAMBER COLLECTIVE brings together young chamber musicians in new and varied formations, with a specific and ardent commitment to celebrating diversity. The Program Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904): Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op.87 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): Nonet in F Minor, Op.2 George Gershwin (1898-1937), arr. Tom Poster: They can’t take that away from me Streamed…
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and Friends: The Next Chapter
“On July 6, 1949 Florence B. Price composed a short and brilliant piece for piano solo titled Whim Wham. The title refers to a caprice or something gotten or bought on a whim, and the earliest autograph suggests that Price may have considered it a complement to the serenity of her recently published and…
“Doves possess great symbolic import in many cultures. The fact that they produce their own milk for their young makes them symbols of nourishment, care, and parental love. They also symbolize tender, physical, sexual love. And in the Christian tradition – the religious tradition to which Langston Hughes and Margaret Bonds subscribed – the dove…
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is making an important contribution to civil rights by copyright. See performance of ‘The Deserted Garden’ by composer Florence Price. MusicUNTOLD is a community partner of LACO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAufIb8k5pE&list=RDGMEM8h-ASY4B42jYeBhBnqb3-wVMQAufIb8k5pE&start_radio=1
The genius of Florence Price was fully captured in the penetrating simplicity of “ADORATION” performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. MusicUNTOLD is a proud community partner of LACO See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csRJ8At1cM&list=RD1csRJ8At1cM&start_radio=1. Also please listen to 2019 NPR story https://www.npr.org/2019/01/21/686622572/revisiting-the-pioneering-composer-florence-price
Michael Cooper PhD is professor of music at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. His research includes previously unknown but recently published compositions by Margaret Bond and Florence Price. MusicUNTOLD is currently reviewing these edited compositions for performances in Los Angeles. Additionally, I am also greatly appreciative to learn from Michael Cooper about an paper by Philip A.…