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2022-06-13 23:21:00
The McLean Symphony: "Remembering Juneteenth!" 50th Anniversary Sunday, June 19, 2022 - 4:00 PM: Coleridge-Taylor, Walker, Ellington, Pryor
Dr. Gilbert Pryor (NWOMusic.com) The McClean Symphony Maestro Dingwall Fleary of The McClean Symphony in Tyson's Corner, Virginia writes: Hello Bill. NOTE: If you haven't seen the website of The McLean Symphony recently, your blog readers might be interested in a concert I'll be conducting next Sunday afternoon at 4:00, It will be the closing program of the season celebrating my/our 50th anniversary. Aptly titled, "Remembering Juneteenth!" it will take place at 4 PM in the Vault Theater of the new Capital One Hall at Tyson's Corner. Seating is limited in that venue... If you've never heard Bryan Jackson, you'll want to, and the piece I commissioned my friend Dr Pryor to create - based on 3 Civil Rights songs - is a knockout! It's written for full orchestra with solo trumpet, […]
2020-11-23 01:14:00
Free Directories of Classical Music Written by Black Composers, including Repertoire for Violin and Orchestra, Launched by Music by Black Composers
THE RACHEL BARTON PINE FOUNDATION’S MUSIC BY BLACK COMPOSERSLAUNCHES NEW FREE DIRECTORIES OFREPERTOIRE FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA AND UNACCOMPANIED VIOLINWRITTEN BY BLACK COMPOSERS CHICAGO – The not-for-profit Rachel Barton Pine (RBP) Foundation’s Music by Black Composers (MBC) project has launched its first free online directories of classical music written by Black composers: Repertoire for Violin and Orchestra, and Repertoire for Unaccompanied Solo Violin. MBC works to rectify historic and ongoing racial injustices in the classical music sphere. MBC’s repertoire directories establish a central location for existing music by Black classical composers. They are a free resource for performers, conductors, concert programmers, students, and teachers seeking existing music, as well as for researchers and scholars of classical music. Whenever possible, the directories include instrumentation, length, links for acquiring the sheet music, links to recordings, and other helpful information to aid in programming. Additionally, the works […]
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2020-06-21 15:30:00
It Took Richard Pryor To Change How Comedy Sees The Police
Comedy culture before Pryor, that is, white comedy culture, depicted copys “as clownish bullies, and their violence, divorced from any racial context, played as a kind of shtick. When they swung their clubs, you never really felt the blow.” Then Pryor came along. – The New York Times
2020-05-17 06:15:00
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER (NSW) This is the second interview in Miranda’s exclusive new CutCommon series Mastering your practice. Please note that these stories may
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