Composer Kris Bowers
Composer Kris Bowers rising in film music https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971058488/kris-bowers-reflects-on-coming-full-circle-in-composing-the-score-for-respect
DetailsComposer Kris Bowers rising in film music https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971058488/kris-bowers-reflects-on-coming-full-circle-in-composing-the-score-for-respect
DetailsOpera Santa Barbara African American 2021 vocal history program.
Rediscovering Margaret Bonds: Art Songs, Spirituals, Musical Theater and Popular Songs. Louise Toppin, Editor Videmus African American Art Song Series. 250 pages. Sole Distributor: Classical Vocal Reprints, CVR5268. $55.00. https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/products/Rediscovering-Margaret-Bonds-Art-Songs-Spirituals-Musical-Theater-and-Popular-Songs-401530.html?fbclid=IwAR3srA-xpTZUN9cdud31fc7RkGQpgO11AXKffMGihf2SF-cEqpUPE4AXZow
DetailsDr. Michael Cooper uncover Florence Price’s PRELUDES set for PIANO Florence B. Price (1887-1953) PRELUDES for Piano edited by John Michael Cooper CONTENTS Foreword and Critical Report………………………………………………………………………………. iii Preludes………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 No. 1. Allegro moderato……………………………………………………………………………. 1 No. 2. Andantino cantabile………………………………………………………………………… 5 No. 3. Allegro molto…………………………………………………………………………………. 9 No. 4 [“Wistful”]. Allegretto con tenerezza…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…
DetailsHildegard celebrates female African American composers https://www.hildegard.com/resources.php?page=afro_american&fbclid=IwAR0loompQLw6RZPzX_7j26_lHYSdyTroJrr2mCdz3i6YokDVQKuYOUYc1DE
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.
DetailsDr. 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…
DetailsNAACP 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…
DetailsConcert 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.
DetailsMusic 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;…
DetailsMusic 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsCellist 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.
DetailsAttached 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.
DetailsDr. 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…
DetailsAfton 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
DetailsDr. 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,…
DetailsDr. 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…
DetailsJanuary 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…
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