Chineke! Orchestra performed behind closed doors at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, in a concert entitled Black Landscapes. The programme honoured a trailblazing African-American female composer of the twentieth century, Florence B. Price. This is the first movement of her award-winning Symphony no. 1 in E minor. Conducted by Roderick Cox.
NPR spoke with composer Anthony Davis about his opera RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT featuring clarinet Anthony McGill. https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2020/11/24/936756472/a-tense-new-classical-work-bottles-the-feeling-of-a-police-stop
Philadelphia Orchestra perform little known symphony composed by African American female Florence Price https://www.inquirer.com/arts/philadelphia-orchestra-florence-price-yannick-nezet-seguin-review-20201125.html?fbclid=IwAR0EAZn8WQKZ0_cwRPeFdCkNNZnjI5v8HGMM3rnIiL2zwz7vnRCnd7wiQXI
Early Music Access Projects new virtual series, Expanding the Narrative, aims to center Black Music and musicians in the story of early America.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra – Live from Music Hall on November 21st program including Clarinetist Anthony McGill and composer Anthony Davis discussion (You Have The Right To Remain Silent).
Korean cellist Kristen Yeon-Ji solo performance of African American composer Adolphus Hailstork “Theme and Variation on Draw the Sacred Circle Closer” carries a timely message.
Soprano Janai Brugger-Orman in studio singing “Ach, Ich Fühl’s” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Click here to listen via DropBox
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Cooper who shared the following: I’m honored and humbled to have been invited to speak on Margaret Bonds in the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s Guest Lecture Series on 24 March, 2021. The complete line-up is below. All the lectures are free (and virtual): 18 November 2020: Professor Stephen Emmerson (Queensland…
MusicUNTOLD 150th anniversary of the 13th amendment concert Nov. 21, 2015, Constitution Hall, Washington DC included a solo piano performance by Karen Walwyn of God Bless America and the 1st movement of her original “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me”. The genius of Karen Walwyn is displayed in the…
Jonathon Heyward conducts Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony ‘From the New World’, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra live at LSO St Luke’s on Wednesday 30 September 2020. Jonathon Heyward conducts Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony ‘From the New World’, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra live at LSO St Luke’s on Wednesday 30 September 2020.