Dr Samantha Ege

Celebrating historical women composers

Dr. Samantha Ege has released an album of piano music by five trailblazing early twentieth-century African American female composers. The album is called Black Renaissance Woman: Piano Music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, and Helen Hagan (LORELT). Please see https://music.web.ox.ac.uk/article/dr-samantha-ege-releases-third-album-celebrating-historical-women-composers? and https://www.samanthaege.com/

George Walker and Latonia Moore

Sunday July 24, 2022 WCRB classical 99.5 Tanglewood Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcast included composer William Grant Still’s “In Memoriam, The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy” and soprano Latonia Moore singing composer George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize “Lilac” (text by Walt Whitman). I was a close friend of George Walker and current friend of Latonia Moore.…