Mary Cardwell Dawson News
American opera singer (1894-1962)
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- piano, voice
- United States of America
- opera singer, music teacher, pianist
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2022-05-15 23:30:44
Castle of our Skins is donating 100% of its May Black Composer Miniature Challenge Anthology proceeds to the National Negro Opera House
[…] heightened awareness now, but that moment needs to be extended and habitualized.” Jonnet Solomon, executive director of the National Opera, bought the house with her friend Miriam White in 2000. Over the years, she has asked for support to preserve the house at 7101 Apple St. in Homewood. The National Historic Landmark was named as one of Discover America’s 11 most endangered historic places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 1941, musician and educator Mary Cardwell Dawson founded the National Negro Opera Company — the first permanent African-American opera company in the nation. Dawson rented the third floor of the opera house as an office and rehearsal space for the company. Dawson learned to sing in the church choir and then enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music, the only African American in her class, according to the opera’s website. She earned degrees in […]
2021-04-17 00:39:00
Sergio A. Mims: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: National Negro Opera Company house receives another bravo — and $500,000
[…] its windows are now boarded up and a fence is being built to protect what was once a favorite haunt of Black celebrities, including actress and singer Lena Horne, fighter Joe Louis, and Hall of Fame baseball player Roberto Clemente, as well as jazz musicians Count Basie, Ahmad Jamal, Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine. But they are not the reason for the house’s sudden fame. Credit that to opera singer Mary Cardwell Dawson, who in 1941 founded the National Negro Opera Company here. The company staged performances in Pittsburgh, New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., which was its headquarters when it disbanded in the 1960s. Ms. Graves learned about Ms. Dawson and first visited the house in 2017 while performing in “The Summer King: The Josh Gibson Story” with Pittsburgh Opera. “I am an African American woman opera singer, and it’s […]
2021-02-13 01:50:00
Post-Gazette.com: Pittsburgh Opera offers free digital concert for Black History Month February 26, 7 PM EST: Music of Florence Price and William Grant Still
[…] 1933. Still remains one of the most prominent Black composers in the opera world. The concert features the opera’s head of music, Glenn Lewis, on piano and baritone Yazid Gray. The live broadcast begins at 7 p.m. Feb. 26, on YouTube. Register at pittsburghopera.org. Hahn pointed out parallels between Pittsburgh Opera, founded in 1939 by five local women, and the National Negro Opera Company, formed two years later by Mary Cardwell Dawson in Homewood. He noted a photo of Dawson and Price together. “This is not a camera trained on the keyboard and the singer,” Mr. Hahn said. “This is a program we wanted to use to elevate our relationship with the National Negro Opera Company and elevate the story of William Grant Still and Florence Price’s struggles in their careers.” The concert will feature Still’s Three Visions for piano […]
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