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2022-02-28 01:48:19
The work of historically marginalized composers will gain more attention in the curriculum for the new African American music minor. In clockwise order from top left: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George; Jessie Montgomery; Roque Cordero; J. H. Kwabena Nketia; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and Florence Price. Credit: Abe Frato The Oberlin Review Walter Thomas-Patterson, Conservatory Editor February 25, 2022 The Conservatory has established an African American Music minor that will be available to students beginning in the 2022–23 academic year. The minor will be interdisciplinary in nature; courses will be offered within the Conservatory’s Jazz and Ethnomusicology departments and the College’s Africana Studies, Dance, and Theater departments, among numerous other cross-sectional courses available to students. The introduction of the minor actualizes a broader curricular expansion toward historically marginalized musical fields, following the Conservatory’s Racial Equity and Diversity Action Plan […]
2022-01-18 01:07:46
Cedille Records: African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume II, "Epitaph For A Man Who Dreamed: In Memoriam Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.," Adolphus Hailstork
[…] performed by the Chicago Sinfonietta led by its founder and music director, Dr. Paul Freeman,” one of the finest conductors our nation has produced.” (Fanfare) Ulysses Kay’s ebullient Overture to Theater Set (1968) exudes a broad and good-natured energy. George Walker’s intensely romantic Lyric for Strings (1941) is one of the great gems of the string orchestra repertoire. With his acclaimed Eight Miniatures for Small Orchestra (1948), Panama’s Roque Cordero succeeded in synthesizing the avant-garde techniques he learned in the U.S. with the Latin and Afro-Caribbean music of his homeland. Accented with archetypal African drumming patterns, Hale Smith’s Ritual and Incantations (1974), radiates an aura of mystery and suspense. Adolphus Hailstork’s An American Port of Call (1985) takes the listener on a lush, fanciful, and jazzy excursion. Ten years in the making, Hailstork’s Epitaph for a Man who […]
2021-04-12 23:53:00
SFCV.org: "Black Classical Music History in One Convenient Box": CBS Black Composers Series Reissued by Sony on 10 CDs
[…] and a winning finale (unlike the disagreeably severe Piano Concerto), a gift to curious trombone soloists faced with a dearth of solo material. José Mauricio Nunes Garcia’s Requiem Mass is good enough to substitute for Mozart’s well-trodden Requiem — try a blindfold listening test on people and see who they think wrote it — as Walker’s increasingly-played Lyric for Strings could stand in for Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Roque Cordero wrote his Violin Concerto for Allen, who revels in its abstract, twisting, turning lines, while on the other hand, José White Lafitte’s Violin Concerto is a virtuoso piece straight out of the middle of the 19th century, done to a spectacular turn by Rosand. A greatly underrated violinist with an unshakable dark-colored tone, Rosand, who was white and Jewish, has written that this was the only record that […]
2020-11-17 19:53:51
Anglais - Sis Solos Soles at the Liceu
[…] missatge by Mario G. Cortizo, text by de Marc Rosich, with Elena Tarrats, soprano and Mario G. Cortizo, percussion. Cállate by Francesc Prat, text by Oriol Pla, with Lídia Vinyes-Curtis, mezzosoprano. No és res urgent by Agustí Charles, text by Marc Rosich, with María Hinojosa, soprano and Marc Charles, violin. Dánae recorda by Joan Magrané, text by Helena Tornero, with Elena Copons, soprano and Judit Bardolet, violin. Voraç bellesa by Lucas Peire, text by Cristina Cordero, with Marta Fiol, soprano and Alex Rodríguez-Flaqué, cello. Per precaució by Raquel García Tomás, text by Victoria Szpunberg with Dolors Aldea, soprano i José Antonio Domené, harp. Music director, Francesc Prat. Stage director, Marc Rosich. Co-production by Gran Teatre del Liceu, Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació. Recorded in diferent spaces within Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona on the 31st October 2020. Available on Youtube until the 22nd November 2020.
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