Urban Classical: The Music of Ed Bland
MLK Jr 50th Anniversary 'SYMPHONY of BROTHERHOOD' Concert will revisit
URBAN CLASSICAL The Music of Ed Bland for theme music. Over thirty
years, John Malveaux developed a pilot for a monthly classical music
radio program dedicated to recordings of neglected composers of African
descent. The pilot was titled "ACROSS THE LINE" and it was
previewed/shopped to NPR stations via NPR uplink. The pilot included an
interview with composer Ulysses Simpson Kay. The number of interested
stations was insufficient to continue financing the project.
Composer Ed
Bland earlier granted me permission to use music from PIECE FOR CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA on his URBAN CLASSICAL cd. I was only attracted to the first
several opening bars that grabbed my attention and found the entire
piece very confusing. Ed said "It contains the kind of focused energy
one imagines exist at the synapse, the point at which the nervous
impulse passes from one neuron to the next in the human nervous system."
The
first several bars of Ed Bland's PIECE FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA found on
the Cambria label will be the opening and closing theme for MLK Jr. 50th
Anniversary 'SYMPHONY of BROTHERHOOD' Concert. Please visit Ed's bio at http://edblandmusic.com/Biography.htm look to bottom left for player of music....this is PIECE FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Thanks
John Malveaux
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