Saturday Feb 6, 2021, while listening to Florence Price Violin Concert #2 at 91.5 FM KUSC Classical Radio- Rich Capparela show, I enjoyed reading 2/12/2018 Open Ears/Staff blog: The Resurrection of Florence Price by Gail Eichenthal https://www.kusc.org/culture/staff-blog/open-ears/open-ears-florence-b-price/. See pic of Florence Price at the piano, 1941 Photo: Arkansas Educational Television Network.
Dr. Michael Cooper is authoring a book on two of Margaret Bonds’s most important Civil Rights manifestos — the “Montgomery Variations” (1964) and her setting of the W.E.B. Du Bois “Credo” (1965-67) for Cambridge University Press. The book will be part of the inaugural batch (six volumes) of the New Cambridge Music Handbooks series, edited…
NAACP IMAGE AWARDS continue to exclude excellence in classical music by composers and artists of African descent. See prior MusicUNTOLD blog https://musicuntold.com/index.php/naacp-image-awards/ and current NAACP nominations https://deadline.com/2021/02/naacp-image-awards-nominations-2021-1234685220/?fbclid=IwAR3mbj6aHG20llhvxGi-rBDKPTA1_Oqr1XEUehmiVe8fKXaHNGjgFmi4IE4. Also see Youtube performance of soprano Latonia Moore during Metropolitan Opera staging of Porgy & Bess. The Metropolitan Opera cast recording of PORGY & BESS is nominated for…
Concert pianist and music educator Polli Chambers-Salazar shared her performance of William Grant Still SUMMERTIME from Three Visions, A Suite for Solo Piano.
Congratulations to Russell Thomas. He (left) shared this photo backstage at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion some years ago. I hope to see him again soon. See https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/LA-Opera-Welcomes-Tenor-Russell-Thomas-as-Artist-in-Residence-20210125#
January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is also the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Soprano and narrator Karen Slack tribute to women in the movement-SAY THEIR NAMES is an astonishing tribute to Black Women who moved social justice forward.
Music researcher and professor Dr. Michael Cooper shared a paper about Margaret Bonds composition NO MAN HAS SEEN HIS FACE FOREWORD About the Composer Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-72) stands as one of the more remarkable composers in twentieth-century music – woman or man, Black or White. [1] Her mother was a musician who studied at Chicago Musical College;…
Music researcher and professor Dr. Michael Cooper shared information and performances of composer Florence Price music as follows: COMPOSING FREEDOM: On Performers’ and Listeners’ Rediscovery of Florence Price’s Clouds (ca. 1947) LIKE ABOUT THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY of the more than three hundred and seventy pieces that Florence B. Price (1887-1953) is known to…
The January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol was diametrically opposite to August 28,1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom MusicUNTOLD, the event production arm of the Long Beach Central Area Association, produced an August 18, 2013 concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at Zipper Hall-Colburn School, Los Angeles titled…