The health controversy surrounding the July 23, continues as the USA Olympic trials are in progress. The 1980 Summer Olympic Games faced a very different controversy that led to the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow. Please see https://africlassical.blogspot.com/2012/04/john-malveaux-music-and-1980-olympics.html Composer Roy Harris was inducted into the American Academy and Institute…
Juneteenth Worldwide /Albinism Awareness Concert June 15, 2010 at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center-Terrace Theater featured Salif Keita, “The Golden Voice of Africa”. Salif Keita of Mali, Africa made his first major U.S. breakthrough with “Tomorrow” and “Papa,” songs prominently featured on the original sound track for the 2001 motion picture, “Ali,” starring Will…
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The June 19, 2011 JUNETEENTH Celebration presented by Long Beach Central Area Association/MusicUNTOLD at Long Beach Performing Arts Center featured a recital by Mezzo-Soprano Denyce Graves with collaborator Laura Ward. See https://musicuntold.com/index.php/juneteenth-worldwide-concert-2011/. KABC Leo Stallworth was host and recognized as 2011 JUNETEENTH Father of The Year. Please see Denyce Graves and Laura Ward perform…
Margaret Bonds’s Montgomery Variations (1964) will be performed by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic July 15, 2021 https://cooperm55.wixsite.com/jmc3/post/meanwhile-in-l-a?fbclid=IwAR1kMXIg9XcU5mLj4-ieOE0bJAZMSzY79JTSYw9hWMnEy_h6fRMbobj-O6g
Tulsa Massacre – THEY STILL WANT TO KILL US – J’Nai Bridges + artist talk https://youtu.be/1Sij2TQ4G4I
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May is Jewish American Heritage Month https://www.jewishheritagemonth.gov/. Please listen to violinist Annelle Kasumi Gregory accompany herself on piano in performance of Theme from Schindler’s List
Ellen Reid’s Lumee’s Dream spotlights internationally renowned soprano and native Californian Nicole Cabell in her LACO debut. See https://www.laco.org/events/shin-reid-britten/
LACMA SUNDAYS LIVE Virtual concert featuring violinist Samuel Nebyu and pianist Charles Abramovic performing music by African American composers, including Joseph Boulogne, Henry Thacker Burleigh, and Samuel Coleridge Taylor. https://www.lacma.org/event/sundays-live-samuel-nebyu-violin-and-dr-charles-abramovic-piano?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MKT%7CWeeklyUpdate%7CMay10%E2%80%9316&utm_content=version_A&sourceNumber=104538