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/
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.…
Let us come together in celebration of Juneteenth, when, on June 19, 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston Texas and informed the enslaved peoples of their emancipation —more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill into…
Composer/pianist Karen Walwyn new digital recording of FLORENCE PRICE immediately available on line https://musicalassumptions.blogspot.com/2022/04/karen-walwyn-plays-florence-prices.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR100M6C3Bi6mng9JA3tfCow-M2x_UhPQyf6G7u2f5wpz25LaD24DDCxjjs. See pic Dr. Karen Walwyn
American composer Roy Harris was a treasured friend and LBCAA/MusicUNTOLD is currently developing a performance of his “Bicentennial Symphony”. See Profiles in Courage-National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
January 8, 2022 I attended a wonderful Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concert at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena that included a short piece, “STRUM”, composed by composer of African descent Jessie Montgomery. The LACO orchestra did not include any recognizable players of African descent. March 19, 2022 I attended a wonderful Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concert at…
Sunday March 6, 2022 at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles the Afro-American Chamber Orchestra Music Society, under baton of dynamic Vince Womack, performed an abbreviated version of “Lift Every Voice & Sing”, “Rumpelstiltskin”-Fairy Tale Symphony, Movement III by pianist/composers Philippa Duke Schuyler and William Grant Still “Sunday Symphony No. 3” during first half. The…
Wednesday March 2, 2022 while listening to KUSC classical radio station 91.5 FM, temporary host Lara Downes (weeknights 8:00 PM to midnight) programmed “Three Spirituals” by Adolphus Hailstork (Naxos Records). I am a friend of both composer Adolphus Hailstork and pianist/radio host Laura Downes. Lara’s many and assorted projects to perform, record, and heighten awareness…
Violinist Annelle Kazumi Gregory is the Long Beach Central Area Association/MusicUNTOLD most promoted artist over the past 10 years. See Annelle’s performance with the Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra, Great Hall, National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv Conservatory) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETtEQp3r28c and pic of John Malveaux, president of Long Beach Central Area Association/MusicUNTOLD and violinist Annelle Kazumi Gregory
American composer Roy Harris’ last completed symphony, “Bicentennial Symphony” (13th), premiered February 10, 11, 12 at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Murry Sidlin to celebrate the 200th birthday of our nation. Original text in the choral symphony, “stand firm against the White Man’s shame, they buy slave’s…