[Florence
B. Price: Concerto in One Movement, Symphony in E Minor;
New Black
Music Repertory Ensemble; Leslie B. Dunner, Conductor; Karen Walwyn,
Piano; Albany Records 1295 (2011)]
By
Barbara Wright-Pryor
Posted March 10, 2012
The Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Interim Provost of Columbia College Chicago has recommended to the college president and Board of Trustees that the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble (CJE), be discontinued. This information was revealed earlier this week by Howard Reich in two articles written for The Chicago Tribune.
The Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Interim Provost of Columbia College Chicago has recommended to the college president and Board of Trustees that the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble (CJE), be discontinued. This information was revealed earlier this week by Howard Reich in two articles written for The Chicago Tribune.
The revelation of the possible
closing of CBMR, the strategic institution that archives and
documents music from the African diaspora, and records, performs and
disseminates the same, has caused an uproar among musicians,
composers and researchers and organizations internationally.
Currently mounting protests are the National Association of
Negro Musicians, Inc. (NANM) established in 1919 and its more than 30
branches throughout the United States whose archival materials are
housed in CBMR and whose “A Documentary History of the National
Association of Negro Musicians” edited by Dr. Doris Evans McGinty
was published by the Center for Black Music Research of Columbia
College Chicago in 2004.
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