Beyonce (Solange’s sister) & Ms. Tina (Solange’s mother) supporting Solange knowles at the New York City Ballet, where she makes history as the first black woman to compose a score for a ballet (9/28/22). CONGRATULATIONS SOLANGE!!!! ✊🏽🩰👸🏽💐
Not Just Another Black Composer Compilation: Kellen Gray Revives Neglected American Masterpieces
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For the humble listener, a musician’s technical and interpretive performance skills are one of the most compelling reasons to buy a concert ticket or a recording of said musician. But your humble reviewer has another, perhaps equally important reason for investing time and money in the work of a musician. And that skill is what I like to call “musical radar”. It is the (sometimes…
Yesterday, Dakneisha and I got to listen in on UConn Music’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble rehearsal of our piece KHRONOS.⏳
It was fun getting to hear another ensemble pick up this challenging piece and bring it to life. Thank you to Director Janet Song Kim for choosing to perform our music tonight!
Shout outs to the students and guest soloist for putting in the time, effort and heart into what I know will be a wonderful concert this evening! A personal thank you to the flutist; I love your take on the solo in “Chaos.” 💙
I am a proud recipient of the Performing Arts Houston New/Now commissioning project award. I will be presenting Bayou City Comeback Chorus Volume 2 at Cullen Theater at The Wortham Theater Center on Jan 19th & 20th!
Beyoncé (Solange’s sister) and Ms. Tina (Solange’s mother), supporting Solange knowles (her sister) at the New York City Ballet, where she makes history as the first black woman to compose a score for a ballet, played by the Phil Harmonic Orchestra (9/28/22).
Treemonisha Wasn’t the Only One, James P. Johnson’s Lost Operas.
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Regular readers of this blog are doubtless aware of my “underdog” interests. Whether suppressed by fascist regime, (as in London Records “Entartete Musik” series and Chandos “ARC”ensemble recordings), or just somehow eclipsed by more “spectacular” (by which I mean, “producing a spectacle” like Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring) but, as exemplified by Cedille Records’ “Avant L’ Orage”,…