PBS: “'When I Rise' is a feature-length documentary about Barbara Smith Conrad' in a 'racial controversy'

John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD, http://musicuntold.com/ tells AfriClassical: “Suggested viewing on PBS”: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/when-i-rise/

Premieres Tuesday, February 8, 2011 on PBS

When I Rise is a feature-length documentary about Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student who finds herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately ascending to the heights of international opera.