Roy Harris 14th Symphony, also known as the “Bicentennial Symphony” premiered in Washington D.C., February 10-12, 1976 with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It is the strongest musical statement on U.S. History, slavery, and race relations ever made by an American composer. The west coast premiere and first…
The west coast premiere and first performance of the “Bicentennial Symphony” since the 1976 premiere will be held June 13, 2009 as centerpiece of ‘Junteenth: Celebrating the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln‘.
Juneteenth: Celebrating The Bicentennial Of Abraham Lincoln Saturday June 13, 2009 12:00-5:00 PM Martin Luther King Jr. Park 1950 Lemon Ave., Long Beach Emcee: Leo Stallworth, ABC7 West Coast Premiere Composer Roy Harris Bicentennial Symphony MusicUNTOLD ORCHESTRA & CHORALE Joseph R. Taylor, Conductor MIGHTY MO ROGERS THE NEW BLUEZ BOBBY RODRIGUEZ LATIN JAZZ FREE…
Dr. Samantha Ege has released an album of piano music by five trailblazing early twentieth-century African American female composers. The album is called Black Renaissance Woman: Piano Music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, and Helen Hagan (LORELT). Please see https://music.web.ox.ac.uk/article/dr-samantha-ege-releases-third-album-celebrating-historical-women-composers? and https://www.samanthaege.com/
Sunday July 24, 2022 WCRB classical 99.5 Tanglewood Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcast included composer William Grant Still’s “In Memoriam, The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy” and soprano Latonia Moore singing composer George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize “Lilac” (text by Walt Whitman). I was a close friend of George Walker and current friend of Latonia Moore.…
Let us come together in celebration of Juneteenth, when, on June 19, 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston Texas and informed the enslaved peoples of their emancipation —more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill into…
Composer/pianist Karen Walwyn new digital recording of FLORENCE PRICE immediately available on line https://musicalassumptions.blogspot.com/2022/04/karen-walwyn-plays-florence-prices.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR100M6C3Bi6mng9JA3tfCow-M2x_UhPQyf6G7u2f5wpz25LaD24DDCxjjs. See pic Dr. Karen Walwyn
American composer Roy Harris was a treasured friend and LBCAA/MusicUNTOLD is currently developing a performance of his “Bicentennial Symphony”. See Profiles in Courage-National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
January 8, 2022 I attended a wonderful Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concert at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena that included a short piece, “STRUM”, composed by composer of African descent Jessie Montgomery. The LACO orchestra did not include any recognizable players of African descent. March 19, 2022 I attended a wonderful Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concert at…