Congratulations to Russell Thomas. He (left) shared this photo backstage at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion some years ago. I hope to see him again soon. See https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/LA-Opera-Welcomes-Tenor-Russell-Thomas-as-Artist-in-Residence-20210125#
January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is also the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Soprano and narrator Karen Slack tribute to women in the movement-SAY THEIR NAMES is an astonishing tribute to Black Women who moved social justice forward.
Music researcher and professor Dr. Michael Cooper shared a paper about Margaret Bonds composition NO MAN HAS SEEN HIS FACE FOREWORD About the Composer Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-72) stands as one of the more remarkable composers in twentieth-century music – woman or man, Black or White. [1] Her mother was a musician who studied at Chicago Musical College;…
Music researcher and professor Dr. Michael Cooper shared information and performances of composer Florence Price music as follows: COMPOSING FREEDOM: On Performers’ and Listeners’ Rediscovery of Florence Price’s Clouds (ca. 1947) LIKE ABOUT THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY of the more than three hundred and seventy pieces that Florence B. Price (1887-1953) is known to…
The January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol was diametrically opposite to August 28,1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom MusicUNTOLD, the event production arm of the Long Beach Central Area Association, produced an August 18, 2013 concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at Zipper Hall-Colburn School, Los Angeles titled…
Cellist Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun (cello professor at Colorado Mesa University) and Pianist Phoenix Park-Kim (piano professor at Indiana Wesleyan University) perform Composer William Grant Still revised ‘MOTHER and CHILD’
The 2021 annual Santa Monica Symphony concert dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be virtual Saturday January 16, 2021. Register https://www.smsymphony.org/events/annual-martin-luther-king-holiday-concert-2/.
Arturo O’Farrill, a six-time Grammy-winning pianist, composer, music educator, and professor of global jazz studies and music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music interviewed Cornel West.
Attached is the list of spirituals by Jacqui for the solo voice that’s in Vol. I of SONGS & SPIRITUALS. She is still working on Vol. 2. I have also requested a list of SATB arrangements.