The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works. Price’s twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred…
Explore the music of WILLIAM GRANT STILL. See picture of William Grant Still with his publisher and daughter Judith Still https://www.laphil.com/about/watch-and-listen/get-to-know-william-grant-still-jr
Changing the game on the concert stage-please see world premiere of composer Nkeiru Okoye “Black Bottom” by the Detroit Symphony conducted by Maestro Thomas Wilkins. The composition for full orchestra and four African American solo voices was developed as from a nearly one-year-long study of a photographic exhibit of Black Bottom Street (predominantly Black…
The inhumanity of man to man is shared in Violins of Hope https://www.violins-of-hope.com/ , and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWhxYQ_O5f4
Rhiannon Giddens sings slave narratives https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/880242844/rhiannon-giddens-sings-slave-narratives?fbclid=IwAR36inleq6MIbDS0GZMfLYOaS_gJYV9oC9m79TvVrQUc1rdavyzYunnomzs
October 2019 was the 50th anniversary of Dave Brubeck’s THE GATES of JUSTICE. See https://africlassical.blogspot.com/2019/10/john-malveaux-50th-anniversary-of.html. African American baritone Kevin Deas was one of two soloists in THE GATES of JUSTICE and a later soloist during 2015 MusicUNTOLD concert celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. See https://africlassical.blogspot.com/2019/10/john-malveaux-kevin-deas-sang-during.html. In a recent statement, 130 Jewish organizations…
In April 2014, I visited Washington DC to prepare for a concert to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment in 2015 at Constitution Hall. I observed a FREEDOM Day Parade and was confused because I annually celebrated and had produced many JUNTEETH Celebration on June 19th in Long Beach, Ca and I was…
LIVE with Carnegie Hall ‘Rhiannon Giddens is one of the most vibrant musicians of our time. With her partner, multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, she leads us through the music and history of minstrelsy’. Terrance McKnight, Moderator https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Watch-and-Listen/Live-with-Carnegie-Hall?fbclid=IwAR0WVzxxsEkmdpkA6tljfzSkrqRY8ER-vMp4fAm1_HCJ8EgdDfyu9rY_hEE Attachments area
Sunday June 14, 2020 was the first of Long Beach Opera’s 2020 Community Conversations, Equity and Diversity in the Arts featured a keynote speech by scholar Dr. Naomi André, performances by Solomon Howard, Julia Bullock and John Holiday. Panelists included Dr. André, Julia Bullock, Ailyn Pérez, Soloman Howard, Andrew Stenson, Kenneth Overton, Karen Slack,…
Mezzo-Soprano J’Nai Bridges will sing the role of Nefertiti in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten during FREE Met Opera Live stream Saturday June 20, 2020, 7:30 EDT. The performance will be available on demand for 23 hours on the Met website. The actual performance was recorded November 23, 2019. See picture of J’Nai Bridges and listen to Met interview https://metopera.org/discover/video/?videoName=jnai-bridges-on-akhnaten&videoId=6109192310001.