Civil Rights by Copyright
Composer Florence Price – ADORATION performed by pianist Augustin Hadelich and 37 musicians (arranged by Elaine Fine)
Margaret Bonds – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Composer Margaret Bonds’s setting of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost is an ‘African American woman – settings of a White man’s words’ (Dr. Michael Cooper). Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his…
Composer Joel Thompson
Joel Thompson is an Atlanta composer, pianist, conductor, and educator moderating live stream conversation Black Women Composers Making an Impact Today-Part 2 https://app.idagio.com/live/event/movers-and-shapers-in-classical-music-black-women-composers-making-an-impact.
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DIGITAL CONCERTS
Detroit Symphony Orchestra digital concerts include music by composers of African descent: Philip Herbert, George Walker, William Grant Still, Chevalier De Saint-Georges, Adolphus Hailstork, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and Florence Price. Thursday September 10PHILIP HERBERT: Elegy: In Memoriam – Stephen Lawrence. DSO strings are featured in Philip Herbert’s remembrance of a Black British teenager murdered in an act…
Florence Price piano suite “Snapshots”
Dr. Michael Cooper shared his first publication of Florence Price’s piano suite “Snapshots” recorded by Robin Arrigo! Listen to it here https://youtu.be/64F1KwvB9vY . To learn more about the piece (which is nowhere discussed in any of the published literature about Price), specifically what it teaches us about Price as pianist-storyteller, see Dr. Cooper post here https://bit.ly/314AuQV or here https://bit.ly/3kYuAbV.
KALEIDOSCOPE CHAMBER COLLECTIVE
KALEIDOSCOPE CHAMBER COLLECTIVE brings together young chamber musicians in new and varied formations, with a specific and ardent commitment to celebrating diversity. The Program Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904): Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op.87 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): Nonet in F Minor, Op.2 George Gershwin (1898-1937), arr. Tom Poster: They can’t take that away from me Streamed…
Soprano Pretty Yende
Lawrence Browlee sat down with the INCREDIBLE soprano Pretty Yende for ‘The Sitdown with LB’ Sunday August 9, 2020.
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and Friends: The Next Chapter
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and Friends: The Next Chapter
Florence B. Price composed piano solo titled “Whim Wham”
“On July 6, 1949 Florence B. Price composed a short and brilliant piece for piano solo titled Whim Wham. The title refers to a caprice or something gotten or bought on a whim, and the earliest autograph suggests that Price may have considered it a complement to the serenity of her recently published and…
Doves possess great symbolic import in many cultures
“Doves possess great symbolic import in many cultures. The fact that they produce their own milk for their young makes them symbols of nourishment, care, and parental love. They also symbolize tender, physical, sexual love. And in the Christian tradition – the religious tradition to which Langston Hughes and Margaret Bonds subscribed – the dove…