{"id":16434,"date":"2020-04-24T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16434"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:00:38","slug":"violinist-or-violist-of-african-descent-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/violinist-or-violist-of-african-descent-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Violinist or violist of African descent &#8211; WHAT HAPPENED?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16430\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Nokuthula.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"Nokuthula Ngwenyama\" data-large_image_width=\"610\" data-large_image_height=\"407\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16430\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16430\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Nokuthula-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Nokuthula-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Nokuthula.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nokuthula Ngwenyama<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16420\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sanford-allen.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"Sanford Allen\" data-large_image_width=\"300\" data-large_image_height=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16420\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sanford-allen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sanford-allen.jpg 300w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sanford-allen-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanford Allen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to Thomas Jefferson in 1781: \u201cThe instrument proper to them (i.e. the slaves) is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa.\u201d The 1984 television film <em>Solomon Northup&#8217;s Odyssey<\/em> and the 2013 feature film <em>12 Years a Slave<\/em> are based on the memoir of violinist Solomon Northrup. Living &amp; working violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama actually purchased a violin crafted by a former slave and respected violin maker. See <a href=\"https:\/\/africlassical.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/city-beat-nokuthula-ngwenyama-acquires.html\">https:\/\/africlassical.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/city-beat-nokuthula-ngwenyama-acquires.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently, I am challenged to understand why NOT ONE violinist or violist of African descent is a headliner on any USA major concert stage. WHAT HAPPENED? Please see September 22, 2012 performance by violinist Sanford Allen and violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama of String Duo No. 2 in B-flat major for violin and viola, K. 424, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G9qPd0aF1gQ\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to Thomas Jefferson in 1781: \u201cThe instrument proper to them (i.e. the slaves) is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa.\u201d The 1984 television film Solomon Northup&#8217;s Odyssey and the 2013 feature film 12 Years a Slave are based on the memoir of violinist Solomon Northrup. Living &amp; working violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[142,143],"class_list":["post-16434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-violinist-sanford-allen","tag-violist-nokuthula-ngwenyama","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16435,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions\/16435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}