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2021-09-06 23:00:13
SFCV.org: WNYC Radiolab and National Public Radio’s June and July 2021 podcast series "The Vanishing of Harry Pace" illuminated the extraordinary lost story
[…] Swan Records is also symbolic of 2021 when the performing arts industry’s diffidence in confronting a long history of racial discrimination was called to a reckoning, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address Founded in spring 1921, Black Swan Records was not the first Black-owned venture into the new bustling phonograph record industry. Between 1919-1920, George C. Broome, a Black entrepreneur and classical music devotee in Medford, Massachusetts, founded the Broome Special Phonograph Record Company. Though only in business for nine months, Broome created a critical yet elite opportunity for a small group of African American musicians, who were classically trained and recorded them in repertoire that was largely Eurocentric. There were important exceptions to this in the recordings of the important Black Canadian composer […]
2021-09-06 23:00:00
SFCV.org: WNYC Radiolab and National Public Radio’s June and July 2021 podcast series "The Vanishing of Harry Pace" illuminated the extraordinary lost story
[…] Swan Records is also symbolic of 2021 when the performing arts industry’s diffidence in confronting a long history of racial discrimination was called to a reckoning, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address Founded in spring 1921, Black Swan Records was not the first Black-owned venture into the new bustling phonograph record industry. Between 1919-1920, George C. Broome, a Black entrepreneur and classical music devotee in Medford, Massachusetts, founded the Broome Special Phonograph Record Company. Though only in business for nine months, Broome created a critical yet elite opportunity for a small group of African American musicians, who were classically trained and recorded them in repertoire that was largely Eurocentric. There were important exceptions to this in the recordings of the important Black Canadian composer […]
2020-08-22 23:33:00
"Black Swans: Earliest African-American Classical Stars" on Parnassus Records: Includes Harry Burleigh, R. Nathaniel Dett, Florence Cole-Talbert, Roland Hayes
[…] an archeological dig reassembling into a bustling street scene, replete with sayers and players, united in music. What a profound gift: great songs and their history reverberating into this century from our chasmic past! Thanks to the formidable efforts of Leslie Gerber and his dedicated team, these voices will never go silent again.” – Rita Dove Complete Tracklist1. Harry Burleigh (baritone): Go Down Moses (arr. Burleigh) (piano accomp. probably Burleigh) Broome Special 51-A (matrix 45-1-1) (Fall 1919) [2:06]2. Edward H.S. Boatner: (bass-baritone) I Don’t Feel Noways Tired (probably arr. Burleigh) Broome Special 54-A (matrix 85-3-2) (Fall 1919) [2:25]3. Edward H.S. Boatner: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (probably arr. Burleigh) Broome Special 51-B (matrix 85-2-1) (Fall 1919) [2:59]4. R. Nathaniel Dett (piano): Dett: In the Bottoms – Barcarolle Broome Special 54-B (matrix 86-2-1) (Fall 1919) [2:48]5. R. Nathanial Dett (piano): Dett: Magnolia Suite – Mammy Broome Special 55-b (matrix 86-1-1) (Fall […]
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2019-10-22 17:41:24
ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION:With the mission statement of “building Community Through the Power of Live Music,” the Binghamton Philharmonic, Broome County’s only professional symphony orchestra, has embarked on an innovative and exciting approach to offering symphonic music to our community. Based in the scenic Southern Tier of New York, we are one of upstate New York’s leading […]
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