PREMIERE performance of a 1941 song by Florence Price on a text by Langston Hughes: the Monologue for the Working Class. Dr. Michael Cooper is responsible for this Florence Price revision and numerous other Florence Price and Margaret Bonds new discoveries and revisions.
Lawrence Brownlee is busy preparing for the November 13 release of this new album, “Amici e Rivali”, where his soaring tenor, alongside Michael Spyres’, will pay homage to Rossini’s male arias and duets that are featured in seven of the composer’s 1800s operas. But in a year that also sparked conversations around racial justice—in America,…
CBS has hired Will Packer Media executive Sheila Ducksworth to head up its development efforts under a deal with the NAACP. Ducksworth will serve as president of the CBS/NAACP production partnership, supervising development of scripted, unscripted and documentary content across all platforms and designed to tell inclusive stories that give Black artists more visibility. Read…