Sergio A. Mims - Cellist Seth Parker Woods reflects on the unabashed celebration of the Black and Brown experience in SOUND/SITES

This Friday, boundary-breaking cellist and Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Music Seth Parker Woods reaches beyond strict performance in the second installment of UChicago Presents' SOUND/SITES series. Recorded in the Renaissance Society and the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, Woods's program explores the "unabashed celebration of the Black and Brown experience" with multimedia performances of music by Monty Adkins, Nathalie Joachim, Alvin Singleton, and Fredrick Gifford.

SOUND/SITES with Seth Parker Woods premieres at 7:00 pm CDT on Friday, February 26, and it will be available to stream until 11:59 pm CDT on Sunday, February 28. Tickets are $15, FREE for University of Chicago students. More info at chicagopresents.uchicago.edu.

Friday - Sunday Feb 26-28

Stream available from 7 PM CST on Friday

until 11:59 PM CST on Sunday

Tickets $15 - FREE for UChicago Students

Get Your Tickets

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John Malveaux: YouTube.com: Opera Santa Barbara African American 2021 vocal history program

Jennifer Lindsay

John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

Opera Santa Barbara African American 2021 vocal history program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZfHbML6mB0

Ritz Chamber Players: Join Our Season-Opening Virtual Concert -- This Saturday: Join Us Online for an Evening of Spirituals Saturday, Feb. 27 at 6 PM ET

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/3999025853450408/

https://ritzchamberplayers.org/ritz-chamber-players-present-black-lives-matter/

Watch "Music for a Saturday Afternoon with Benjamin Bradham" on YouTube

Benjamin Bradham

Benjamin Bradham writes:

Dear friends,

The Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts  has posted my virtual recital from February 20th on YouTube. I will mention that the audio on YouTube is better than came through over ZOOM. For those who were unable to view the webcast, or would like to view again, please use the link below. 

Best to all,

Benjamin

https://youtu.be/sq92fIaaN9s

Marlon Daniel hosts: BLACK VOICES - CLASSICAL MUSIC @ Fordham University, Friday, February 26 at 5:30 PM ET on Zoom

Marlon Daniel

Marlon Daniel writes:

Dear Everyone,

 

I am inviting you to BLACK VOICES – CLASSICAL MUSIC, an online webinar series hosted by Fordham University which I spearheaded and will be a moderator.

 

This is the first of the three panel discussions and is dedicated to “Performers”. It will be Friday February 26 at 5:30 on Zoom and feature my good friends and colleagues J’Nai Bridges, Anthony McGill and Toyin Spellman-Diaz. They, as you may know, are prolific performers that have graced many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls and opera houses with their amazing talent.

 

We will be discussing topics from “being a person of Color in classical music” to “creating change throughout the Arts”.

 

Please join me and my Fordham University colleagues/co-host as we explore some of today's most relevant issues in the arts!

 

Thank you and hope to see you all soon,

Registration link: https://forms.gle/ywCiBaa4X9gPPMqL6

Marlon Daniel

Director of Orchestral Ensembles

Sergio A. Mims - Adolphus Hailstork's "Earthrise for Double Chorus and Orchestra" on WHPK-FM Chicago March 2

Adolphus Hailstork

Sergio A. Mims writes:

I am very honored and pleased to announce that I will be broadcasting on my weekly classical music show on WHPK-FM Chicago on Tuesday March 2  Adolphus Hailstork's extraordinary  Earthrise for Double Chorus and Orchestra which was recorded live at the Cincinnati May Festival with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with John Conlon conducting. Many thanks to Bill Doggett for obtaining permission from Mr. Hailstork to allow me to broadcast this great work on my radio show

Also on the program will be Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2 and Sibelius' Four Legends from the Kalevala. My show can be heard every Tuesday from 12 noon to 3PM (CST) locally on 88.5 FM and worldwide  livestream on the station's website at http://www.whpk.org

Sergio

 

John Malveaux: FilmMusicReporter.com: Another original score by Los Angeles based composer Michael Abels

Michael Abels Drawing

John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

Another original score by Los Angeles based composer Michael Abels https://filmmusicreporter.com/2021/02/05/hbos-allen-v-farrow-to-feature-original-score-by-michael-abels/

AACMSO: The public is cordially invited to join the Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra (AACMSO) on Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 6pm

Afro-American Chamber

Music Society Orchestra Presents

Frederick

Douglass

Slave Narrative Zoom Concert

SUN.

Feb. 28

6:00 PM

ZOOM MEETING: 834 5029 8044

Professor Emeritus Janise White writes:

Dear Bill,

The public is cordially invited to join the Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra (AACMSO) in a conversation with James Reese Europe's great grandson, Robert Foster Europe and Jeraldine Saunders Herbison, composer of the Frederick Douglass Symphonic Suite on Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 6pm.

Panelists include Bill Doggett,  Professor Vince Womack, Janise White, Founder & Director and Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Host.

Best,

Janise White, Professor Emeritus

 

Tucson.com: Southern Arizona organ guild honors Black composers with special concert of works by Florence Price, Harry T. Burleigh & Moses Hogan 3 PM MT Feb. 28

Calvin Taylor

(calvintaylormusic.org)

Tucson.com

February 23, 2021

Cathalena E. Burch

African-American composers will take the spotlight on Sunday, Feb. 28, when the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists hosts a special Black History Month virtual concert.

The program for the concert, which begins at 3 p.m., includes works by Florence Price, the first African-American female composer to have her works performed by a major orchestra; Harry T. Burleigh, whose relationship with Czech composer Antonin Dvorák influenced Dvorák’s “New World Symphony”; and Moses Hogan, who is credited with introducing spirituals in the standard choral repertoire.

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Miller will perform his own works during the concert, which also features works by opera composer H. Leslie Adams, hymnal composer William Farley Smith, Nigerian composer Fela Sowande, symphonic composer Calvin Taylor and George Walker, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for music.

Sunday’s concert will be streamed through the guild’s website, saago.org; click on “events” and it will take you to the site.

Admission is free but donations are welcomed.

TimesUnion.com: Saint Rose Camerata Black History Month concert 7:30 PM ET, Feb. 27 via YouTube: Burleigh, Price, Bonds, H. Leslie Adams & B.E.Boykin

B. E. Boykin

(b.e.boykin.com)

Times Union

February 18, 2021

Azra Haggie

ALBANY -- Black composers and poets will be featured in the Saint Rose Camerata presented at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27 via YouTube.

The College of Saint Rose's all-faculty ensemble, under the direction of Yvonne Chavez Hansbrough, will commemorate Black History Month with musical works by Henry “Harry” Thacker Burleigh, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, H. Leslie Adams and B.E. Boykin and poetry by Black poets Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes.