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Indiana University: Black cast and director bring revered Black composer's opera to life [William Grant Still's "Highway 1, USA"]
Chase Sanders and Maisah Outlaw perform as Mary and Aunt Lou in "Highway 1, USA." Photo by Sarah Slover, Jacobs School of Music Indiana University Jacobs School of Music By Julia Hodson Feb. 24, 2022 Composer William Grant Still once said, "I don't think that it is good for the world of music to have everything come out of the same mold. God didn't place only roses on earth, or only lilies or only violets. He put flowers of many sorts and many colors here, the beauty of each enhancing that of the others." Still may not be as well-known outside the music world as other American composers like George Gershwin or Leonard Bernstein, but his talent was on the same level. Known as the "the dean of African American composers," Still was a key figure in […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-10-30 02:40:00
Ballet West chose to perform a classic 1925 ballet, then faced another decision: Do racist elements stay or go?
“[Millicent Hodson’s] reconstructions include the legendary George Balanchine’s 1925 Le Chant du Rossignol, the tale of a Chinese emperor who favors the notes of a mechanical bird over the song of a nightingale. Ballet West chose Le Chant, along with two other early works Balanchine created for the Ballet Russe, to open its 2019-20 season […]
2016-11-05 16:02:35
Organist Steven Hodson, conductor of the Santa Barbara Master Chorale, opens with three "Toccatas" by Johann Pachelbel and one by Dieterich Buxtehude . Next, organist Thomas Joyce, Trinity's new minister of music, and cellist Joanne de Mars will play the "Sonata in a-minor for Cello and Organ, Opus 60" by Marcel Dupr .
2013-05-29 06:01:33
100 Years Ago Today: The Russians Claim Ballet for Modernism
[…] not organized as a piece of “absolute” music. So a listener needs to know what the music is “about.” It undoutedly helps to see one of the 200 or so different productions that have been mounted since the original. But modern versions tend to (wrongly) emphasize the outlandish and promote a supposed modernist take by, for example, using naked or nearly naked dancers or appealing to an erotic undertow in the music. It took Millicent Hodson’s tireless choreographic archaeology to recreate what Nijinsky designed. The Joffrey Ballet then nearly a quarter century ago put on the nearest approximation of what we are ever likely to see of the “intention” of the creators, and it was a stunning eye-opener. Even today the movements of the dancers can be described, as the New York Times London correspondent did in 1913, as not involving “dancing in the ordinary sense of the word.” It […]
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