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 50th Anniversary of 1963 MARCH on WASHINGTON for JOBS & FREEDOM), Sunday August 18, 2013, Zipper Hall-Colburn School, Los Angeles. Please see complete concert
Dr. Michael Cooper recently discovered Margaret Bond’s Christmas song BRIGHT STAR (SABT) was adapted for solo voice and piano by Jacqueline Hairston. Please listen to Baritone Robert Sims world premiere of BRIGHT STAR.
PostClassical featuring PostClassical Ensemble in a special 2019 edition honoring Black History Month. Bass-baritone Kevin Deas is the soloist for this program, called Deep River: The Art of the Spiritual, featuring the music of Harry Burleigh, Nathanial Dett, William Dawson and others. This webcast contains 20+ minutes of material not heard in the broadcast! See https://www.wwfm.org/post/postclassical-feb-15-deep-river
Louis Armstrong “Black and Blue”, a 1929 B-side on Okeh Records’ “popular music” listings (a label that had previously marketed him for “race records”), has been called American music’s first bona fide protest song against racial inequality
Dr. Michael Cooper quote: I’M EXCITED AND DELIGHTED to share this announcement from my esteemed friends at Hildegard Publishing Company: a new announcement of #MargaretBonds‘s Six Songs on Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, along with two other masterpieces: the Montgomery Variations (1964), which were inspired by Bonds’s thirteen-stop southern tour in 1963-64, and the magisterial…
Ensemble Ari interviews African American composers Derrick Spiva and Andre Myers and performs their music.
OPERA WIRE interview Kenneth Overton. See https://operawire.com/q-a-baritone-kenneth-overton-on-returning-to-live-performance-and-spotlighting-the-lives-of-the-black-opera-greats/
Historic recordings of African American Classical Musicians. See NPR story https://www.npr.org/player/embed/944287525/944337798 and http://blacklikevanilla.com/the-story-of-black-swan-records-the-first-commercially-successful-black-owned-and-operated-record-company/
Soprano Julia Bullock selected Musical America Artist of the Year 2020 (Agent of Change). See https://www.musicalamerica.com/features/?fid=351&fyear=2021
Dr. Michael Cooper shared his blog A BOUQUET of FLORENCE PRICE with MusicUNTOLD. See https://cooperm55.wixsite.com/jmc3/post/a-bouquet-inspired-by-florence-b-price