Cellist Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun (cello professor at Colorado Mesa University) and Pianist Phoenix Park-Kim (piano professor at Indiana Wesleyan University) perform Composer William Grant Still revised ‘MOTHER and CHILD’
The 2021 annual Santa Monica Symphony concert dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be virtual Saturday January 16, 2021. Register https://www.smsymphony.org/events/annual-martin-luther-king-holiday-concert-2/.
Arturo O’Farrill, a six-time Grammy-winning pianist, composer, music educator, and professor of global jazz studies and music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music interviewed Cornel West.
Attached is the list of spirituals by Jacqui for the solo voice that’s in Vol. I of SONGS & SPIRITUALS. She is still working on Vol. 2. I have also requested a list of SATB arrangements.
Dr. Michael Cooper shared with MusicUNTOLD the following: NUMBER ONE OF 2021: I awoke this morning to find that my edition of Florence B. Price’s Seven Descriptive Pieces for Piano Solo (1927-28) has been published by G. Schirmer & Associated Music Publishers. That’s quicker than I expected, but hardly too quick considering that they’ve remained…
Afton Battle is the new General Director of Fort Worth Opera. See https://360westmagazine.com/see-do/2020/12/faces-january-2021/?fbclid=IwAR3G6Ckf86gipdL1y2pPSCSlhxSZa4dLNSTa8co-K9FuYzH42xDq-xTF4jA
Dr. Michael Cooper shared the following information about Florence B Price seven pieces for piano solo with MusicUNTOLD. FLORENCE PRICE: SEVEN DESCRIPTIVE PIECES FOR PIANO SOLO Florence B. Price (1887-1953) achieved a level of renown that defied all expectations for an African American woman in her day.[1] Having studied at the New England Conservatory from 1903 to 1906,…
Dr. Michael Cooper shares information and performances of newly discovered music by composer Margaret Bonds. Please see https://cooperm55.wixsite.com/jmc3/post/the-sound-of-peace?fbclid=IwAR18lZHwbxl4vopMy4YIOcTLN8nXFi8eF8KOkL_APndO8wzMj8n6s_2WZ5o
Miriam Makeba, South African singer, songwriter, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist, Nov. 15, 1968 performance at UCLA Pauley Pavilion is connected to two Long Beach Poly alumni. Lewis Gray, president of World Wide Production recruited me to locate a venue for a concert featuring Miriam Makeba. Debra Hill was a close…
January 18, 2021 is Martin Luther King Jr. day. MusicUNTOLD has produced multiple concerts honoring the legacy of Dr. King including “Symphony of Brotherhood Concert” (classical music commemorating the Anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots on April 25, 2014 at Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles featuring performance by the Colorado Mesa University Piano…