Composer Kris Bowers
Composer Kris Bowers rising in film music https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971058488/kris-bowers-reflects-on-coming-full-circle-in-composing-the-score-for-respect
Opera Santa Barbara
Opera Santa Barbara African American 2021 vocal history program.
Rediscovering Margaret Bonds: Art Songs, Spirituals, Musical Theater and Popular Songs
Rediscovering Margaret Bonds: Art Songs, Spirituals, Musical Theater and Popular Songs. Louise Toppin, Editor Videmus African American Art Song Series. 250 pages. Sole Distributor: Classical Vocal Reprints, CVR5268. $55.00. https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/products/Rediscovering-Margaret-Bonds-Art-Songs-Spirituals-Musical-Theater-and-Popular-Songs-401530.html?fbclid=IwAR3srA-xpTZUN9cdud31fc7RkGQpgO11AXKffMGihf2SF-cEqpUPE4AXZow
Dr. Michael Cooper uncover Florence Price’s PRELUDES set for PIANO
Dr. Michael Cooper uncover Florence Price’s PRELUDES set for PIANO Florence B. Price (1887-1953) PRELUDES for Piano edited by John Michael Cooper CONTENTS Foreword and Critical Report………………………………………………………………………………. iii Preludes………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 No. 1. Allegro moderato……………………………………………………………………………. 1 No. 2. Andantino cantabile………………………………………………………………………… 5 No. 3. Allegro molto…………………………………………………………………………………. 9 No. 4 [“Wistful”]. Allegretto con tenerezza…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…
Hildegard celebrates female African American composers
Hildegard celebrates female African American composers https://www.hildegard.com/resources.php?page=afro_american&fbclid=IwAR0loompQLw6RZPzX_7j26_lHYSdyTroJrr2mCdz3i6YokDVQKuYOUYc1DE
Open Ears/Staff blog: The Resurrection of Florence Price
Saturday Feb 6, 2021, while listening to Florence Price Violin Concert #2 at 91.5 FM KUSC Classical Radio- Rich Capparela show, I enjoyed reading 2/12/2018 Open Ears/Staff blog: The Resurrection of Florence Price by Gail Eichenthal https://www.kusc.org/culture/staff-blog/open-ears/open-ears-florence-b-price/. See pic of Florence Price at the piano, 1941 Photo: Arkansas Educational Television Network.
New book on two of Margaret Bonds’s most important Civil Rights manifestos
Dr. Michael Cooper is authoring a book on two of Margaret Bonds’s most important Civil Rights manifestos — the “Montgomery Variations” (1964) and her setting of the W.E.B. Du Bois “Credo” (1965-67) for Cambridge University Press. The book will be part of the inaugural batch (six volumes) of the New Cambridge Music Handbooks series, edited…
NAACP IMAGE AWARDS
NAACP IMAGE AWARDS continue to exclude excellence in classical music by composers and artists of African descent. See prior MusicUNTOLD blog https://musicuntold.com/index.php/naacp-image-awards/ and current NAACP nominations https://deadline.com/2021/02/naacp-image-awards-nominations-2021-1234685220/?fbclid=IwAR3mbj6aHG20llhvxGi-rBDKPTA1_Oqr1XEUehmiVe8fKXaHNGjgFmi4IE4. Also see Youtube performance of soprano Latonia Moore during Metropolitan Opera staging of Porgy & Bess. The Metropolitan Opera cast recording of PORGY & BESS is nominated for…
Polli Chambers-Salazar performs William Grant Still SUMMERTIME
Concert pianist and music educator Polli Chambers-Salazar shared her performance of William Grant Still SUMMERTIME from Three Visions, A Suite for Solo Piano.
LA Opera Welcomes Tenor Russell Thomas as Artist in Residence
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#