Pianist Stewart Goodyear Performs Complete Beethoven Sonatas on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 at Mondavi Center

Stewart Goodyear at Mondavi Center Saturday, October 5, 2013

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Thank you so much, Bill! Kindest regards!  [Stewart Goodyear]

'Concerto for Finger and Orchestra' of Leo Brouwer at 'Classy Humor' Concert of '5th Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival'

Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) is an Afro-Cuban composer, guitarist and conductor who is featured at AfriClassical.com. 

Havana, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) The comedy concert "Humor con Clase" (Classy Humor) opened the 5th Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival, which includes a Paco de Lucia concert.

"Concierto para Dedo y Orquesta" (Concerto for Finger and Orchestra) was performed by pianist Jorge Luis Pacheco and actor Osvaldo Doimeadios, who presented a show that sometimes remind the audience the intelligent and melodic humor of the Argentine group Les Luthiers.

Brouwer composed this work for Alfonso Arau forty years ago, and was premiered at the Teatro Musical de La Habana with a huge success.

The show was, to some extent, a music class, an interactive work involving the public, hence Brouwer decided to name the show "Humor con Clase." 

The program included the performance of excerpts from "Una Broma Musical" (A Musical Joke), a piece written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787 to make fun of certain musical clunkers of his time.
Doimeadios appreciated Brouwer·s wits and wills for this opportunity to dignify the comedy. This initiative breaks stereotypes of solemnity blamed on classical music.


The 5th Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival will run until October 13 with some 300 Cuban and foreign artists, among them Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia, who will perform on Wednesday.

Dallas Artists Reflect on HIV/AIDS Through Dance, Music, & the Spoken Word 7:00 p.m. Monday, October 7, 2013 at Winspear Opera House

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“Some performances linger in your mind because the work and/or  talent is among the best you've ever seen.  Sometimes, you know  you've witnessed something important, monumental even. A  Gathering [2011]…is memorable for both reasons.” - Dallas Morning News

credits Photo by Brian Guilliaux

Eric Conway, Jr. Directs Yale Gospel Choir in 'Done Made My Vow to the Lord'

Eric Conway, D.M.A., Fine and Performing Arts Department Chairperson, Morgan State University:

Hello all,

Some of you know that on this past Friday, I drove up to New Haven, Connecticut to hear the Yale Gospel Choir perform.  My son, Eric Conway, Jr., (E.J.)  happens to be the director of the Yale Gospel Choir.  Please see link below to youtube video from the opening song in the concert - "Done Made My Vow to the Lord."  While there, I had a chance to see former Morgan State Alumna and choir member Leah Hawkins (Class of 2013) who is now a Graduate student in the Yale School of Music, who attended the concert.  

I was very proud this weekend as my son although not following in his father's footsteps with a career in Music, is following at least avocationally and doing a very fine job!  Also, I was proud to know that our Morgan graduates can leave our university and attend top-notched Ivy-League Graduate Schools after leaving our programs.

Eric

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2yf4PaXHLc

Eric Conway, D.M.A.

Fine and Performing Arts Department, Chairperson

Morgan State University

Gwendoline Y. Fortune: In the 'first generation following chattel slavery, people of color clawed their lives from the pit to the pendulum.'

Yesterday AfriClassical posted: Mary McLeod Bethune Cultural Heritage Arts Festival Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 5:30-8:00 PM, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL

Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed.D. writes:

Lost, stolen or Strayed--US.

I'm preparing for my intended trip to Daytona Beach, Florida next Friday--not for automobile racing, but for a celebration of a woman young Americans of all backgrounds should know, Mary McLeod Bethune. If these stories were presented with vigor to the youth, there would be no time or space for the degradation in the socio-psychological lives of the youth who inhabit the jails and classrooms filled with low achieving students.

I looked up the biographies of Mary McLeod Bethune, Lucy Craft Laney, and Benjamin E. Mays online. These reports are not primary sources, nor are they particularly well written, but, for me, they remind of the full stories and people I have known and learned, and the inspiration they have been. I wish that there could be a movement to super-saturate youngsters from elementary to universities with the stories of how these, first generation following chattel slavery people of color clawed their lives from the pit to the pendulum.

We have lost too much. I have little expectation of improvement, There is not the respect, nor the awe for that great generation. Somewhere there are children's books/biographies, but most are devoid of excitement, talking to children as if to protect and condescend. Something must change, and the motivation that is deserved must be known. The anti-intellectual, anti-education bias fostered by the corporate model that intends to continue the slave mentality has to be broken.

The Minneapolis Museum for Lucy Craft Laney, Modern Day Woman

"Miss Laney was a forward thinking person. She believed that the only way for blacks to be successful in America was by being well educated. She also believed that in order for the race to continue its women must be educated as well. Her students studied the classics, Latin, Algebra, and various trades. She produced well-rounded young adults who also studied the arts and music and participated in sports. Miss Laney assured that students who graduated from Haines Normal were ready to compete in society."

My father's sisters, born 1897-to about 1907, attended "Miss Lucy Laney's school." I remember hearing mention on many occasions. I knew to respect even the names without knowing the people because of the respect with which the elders spoke. Actually, so many of our greats were mentioned so frequently my mind is unsure as to how many I really knew, and how many I only knew by mention and photos.

We NEED a revival of this heritage to motivate, stimulate and initiate, so that the statement my eldest once made disappears. I was reading.. He passed through the room, and asked what it was. I said, "The Negro Cowboy." He said, whoever heard of a Negro Cowboy." I replied, "My grandfather was a cowboy." This was the result of turning our children over to an alien educational system!

--

Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed.D.
Author: Family Lines
http://www.gyfortune.com/

Comment by email:

Oh my goodness, gracious, Bill. you are so "swift." one of my father's terms. He admired "swift" people. I had no idea you would use the piece, just felt a connection when I read the announcement. It looks different in your format. I thank you for deeming it worthy.

I've heard from Dr. Evelyn Bethune. she says Friday is a day primarily for media and publicity, that the festival is not until April. I may not go just for the evening, but wait until the festival. All depends on the weather. Our rainy season is just ending-tropical rain every day.  Gwen  [Gwendoline Y. Fortune]

Baritone Sidney Outlaw is 'Guglielmo' in Mozart's 'Cosi fan tutte' at North Carolina Opera, Oct. 3-6, 2013

Sidney Outlaw

North Carolina Opera

Così fan tutte Fully staged

“The School for Lovers”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sung in Italian with English supertitles

• Thursday, October 3, 2013, 8:00 PM
• Saturday, October 5, 2013, 8:00 PM
• Sunday, October 6, 2013, 3:00 PM

Fletcher Opera Theater, Duke Energy Center, Raleigh

Conductor

Timothy Myers

Director

Michael Shell

Cast

Fiordiligi – Elizabeth De Trejo
Dorabella – Cecelia Hall
Ferrando – Tyler Nelson
Guglielmo – Sidney Outlaw
Don Alfonso – Jake Gardner

Despina – Hailey Clark      

About Sidney Outlaw

Lauded by The New York Times as a “terrific singer” and The San Francisco Chronicle as “an opera powerhouse”, Sidney Outlaw was the Grand Prize winner of the Concurso Internacional de Canto Montserratt Caballé in 2010 and continues to delight audiences in the U.S. and abroad with his rich and versatile baritone and engaging stage presence. A recent graduate of the Merola Opera Program, and former member of the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, this rising American baritone from Brevard, North Carolina made his English National Opera debut in the 2011-12 season as Rambo in “The Death of Klinghoffer”. Also last season, he appeared as Prince Yamadori in “Madame Butterfly” at Opera on the James. Other mainstage roles include Malcolm in “Malcolm X” at New York City Opera, Dandini in “La Cenerentola” with Florida Grand Opera (2009), Ariodante in Handel’s “Xerxes” (2010), Demetrius in Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for the International Vocal Arts Institute, Papageno in “Die Zauberflöte” and a sensational international debut as Guglielmo in “Così fan tutte”, in both Germany and Israel (2009). A sought-after concert singer and recitalist, Mr. Outlaw made his Schwabacher Recital debut at the San Francisco Opera center with pianist John Churchwell and collaborates regularly with renowned pianists, Warren Jones (The New York Festival of Song and Marilyn Horne’s On Wings of Song series), Carol Wong, Steven Blier, and Michael Barrett. His concert and recital appearances include debuts of renowned works at major concert halls: “Messiah at Carnegie Hall”, Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9” at Avery Fisher Hall, Mahler’s Lieder “Eines fahrenden Gesellen” with Music Academy of the West and “Wednesday At One” at Alice Tully Hall, John Stevens in the world premiere concert of H. Leslie Adam’s opera “Blake” at the prestigious Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York and the world premiere of Wayne Oquin’s, “A Time to Break Silence: Songs inspired by the Words and Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.”, commissioned by The Juilliard School. Mr. Outlaw’s awards include 2nd Prize in the 2011 Gerda Lissner Foundation Awards, National semi-finalist Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; semi-finalist Francisco Vinas International Singing Competition; finalist for both Concour International Musical de Montreal and George London Foundation; and grand prize Florida Grand Opera/YPO Vocal Competition. He holds a master’s degree in vocal performance from The Juilliard School and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.       

John Malveaux: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra led by Venezuelan guest conductor Rafael Payare for 11 AM family concert August 28, 2013

George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860)
(Copyright British Museum)

[Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges [1745-1799] Concertos pour violon; Orchestre de Chambre Bernard Thomas; Jean-Jacques Kantorow; Arion 68093 (1990)]

Rafael Payare

John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

The Walt Disney Concert Hall 10th Anniversary Celebration "insideOUT" brought the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra to the California State Univerisity-Long Beach Carpenter Performing Arts Center for the first time on Saturday August 28, 2013 for a 11:00 am family concert supported by County Supervisor Don Knabe. The program opened with 'The Marriage of Figaro Overture'. The Long Beach based JAZZ ANGELS are an ethnic and gender mixed youth and adult sextet. Their first performance piece was "So What" by Miles Davis. The next two pieces, "Chitlins con Carne" by Kenny Burrell and "Sonnymoon for Two" by Sonny Rollins had orchestral arrangements to include the LA Phil Orchestra. The program closed with "Peter and the Wolf" featuring narration by Julie Andrews.

 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra was under the baton of Venezuelan guest conductor Rafael Payare who clearly exhibited the African influence in South American. The current Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Gustavo Dudamel recently commented that his hair was evidence of his African ancestry.

 

Le Chevalier de Saint Georges was mixed race and a leading conductor and violinist in Paris before the unmatched recognition of Mozart. Beethoven composed his most famous violin sonata in honor of mixed race George Bridgetower and he performed with Bridgetower during the premiere in Vienna.

 

See picture of Maestro Rafael Payare. The great boxer Joe Lewis and I frequently shared breakfast at 6:00am in the morning at Caesar's Palace before retiring after a long night. Joe used to say "you can run but you can not hide". The good news is no one is hiding TODAY.

[Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) and George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860) are profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a biography and Works List for Bridgetower by Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma, www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com.]

BroadwayWorld.com: 'Houston Symphony and Mexican Institute of Houston to Present...Talented Young musicians from The Sphinx Organization' Sat. Oct. 12

Aaron P. Dworkin Congratulates Adé Williams at Sphinx Competition

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: A Celebration; Cedille 90000 087

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson  (1932-2004) was an African American composer and conductor who co-founded The Symphony of the New World.  He is featured at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works List and a Bibliography by Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma, www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com. His music will be performed by musicians of The Sphinx Organization on October 12, 2013:

Broadway World

September 28

2:09 PM 2013

The Houston Symphony will visit its favorite summertime performance spot, Miller Outdoor Theatre, for a FREE fall concert on Saturday, October 12. The Mexican Institute of Greater Houston's Lunada, night of the full moon, is a cultural event reminiscent of those held in small towns and pueblos in Mexico, where community members come together to share music, poetry and stories. The concert's repertoire includes music by Montgomery, Bach, Vivaldi, Perkinson, Britten in addition to two Tangos by Piazzolla.

Led by Guest Conductor Andrés Franco, this annual concert will feature young musicians from The Sphinx Organization. As the Houston Symphony continues to serve Houston's diverse citizenry, an important partnership with The Sphinx Organization has been formed. The Sphinx Organization's mission is to transform lives through the power of diversity and provide numerous opportunities for talented, young, Black and Latino musicians in the field of classical music. In addition to this concert, several Sphinx musicians will perform in several area churches and within HISD schools. Earlier this year, cellist Christine Lamprea, winner of the 2013 Sphinx Competition performed as a soloist with the Houston Symphony. The Symphony looks forward to additional activity with Sphinx as both organizations understand the deep need and meaningful benefits of diversity initiatives within our field.

PLEnglish.com: 'Leo Brouwer Festival Highlights Cuba's Oldest Music'

Esteban Salas

Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) is an Afro-Cuban composer, guitarist and conductor who is featured at AfriClassical.com.  Above photos of Maestro Brouwer are from Cuba Absolutely. 

Prensa Latina

V Festival Leo Brouwer de Música de Cámara

(Fifth Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival)

Santiago de Cuba, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) The oldest musical heritage of Santiago de Cuba was highlighted today by researcher Miriam Escudero as a relevant part of Cuban culture related to the first metropolitan cathedral and treasured for four centuries on this island.

During a confererence as part of the 5th Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival, Escudero, who is also director of Musical Heritage at the Havana City Historian's Office, discussed the results of 15 years of research on that musical treasure linked to the churches in Cuba.

Bass Trombonist Martin McCain, who recorded CD 'Trombone Czar', will play in orchestra for 'Colour of Music', Charleston, Oct. 23-27, 2013

On November 25, 2012 AfriClassical posted: 

Trombonist Martin McCain and Pianist Artina McCain on 'Trombone Czar: Russian Treasures for Bass Trombone' on Kairoi Music

A September 25, 2013 post on AfriClassical said: Charleston Symphony Orchestra Spiritual Ensemble & Buster-Elsie Productions announce the Colour of Music Festival, October 23-27, 2013

As usual, AfriClassical tweeted the post title.  Today we received this reply from Dr. McCain on Twitter:

Martin McCain @bassman781

@AfriClassical I'll be playing in the orchestra!

Mary McLeod Bethune Cultural Heritage Arts Festival Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 5:30-8:00 PM, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL

BETHUNE: Out of the darkness and into the light of Freedom; Dr. Evelyn Bethune

Evelyn Bethune, granddaughter of Mary McLeod Bethune, stands recently in front of the statue of her grandmother at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. An inaugural Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Cultural Heritage Arts Festival is Planned for October.

News-Journal/David Massey

The Daytona Beach News-Journal

Festival planned to further Bethune's legacy

By Deborah Circelli

EDUCATION WRITER

Friday, February 22, 2013 at 6:46 p.m.

DAYTONA BEACH — The story of how Mary McLeod Bethune opened a school with $1.50, faith in God and five little girls is so well-known her granddaughter worries the rest of the tale might be forgotten.

How Bethune advised four presidents; carried picket signs in Atlanta, Washington and other places to support boycotts of stores that would not hire blacks; became the first African-American woman appointed as head of a federal agency.

"Mary McLeod Bethune is an international icon," said Evelyn Bethune, who speaks across the U.S. about her grandmother, especially in February for Black History Month. "Daytona Beach probably knows less about her than other places around the country."

Bethune wants her grandmother to be remembered as "more than the founder" of Bethune-Cookman University, and hopes to raise awareness and celebrate Bethune's life and history through an inaugural Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Cultural Heritage Arts Festival. Planned for Oct. 3-7, the festival will also be a catalyst for economic and cultural development in the Midtown community and the Daytona Beach area and attract people from across the country and the world, Bethune said.

Sponsorships and hundreds of volunteers are needed to help with planning and working the festival, which is expected to cost about $200,000, including in-kind services.

"There are organizations my grandmother started all over the country," Bethune said. "Her impact in terms of the times she did the things she did deserves national recognition. What better place than Daytona Beach to do that." 

Saturday, September 28: Community MusicWorks Players at WaterFire perform pieces by Arvo Pärt and Kareem Roustom. Free.

Shawn LeSure

Rhiannon Banerdt

CommunityMusicWorks.org  of Providence, Rhode Island:

Our Idea

Based on the conviction that musicians can play an important public service role, Community MusicWorks has created an opportunity for professional musicians to build and transform their own urban community. 

Welcome to CMW's 17th season! This season, we are dedicating ourselves throughout the organization to the theme of crossing borders, encouraging audience members, students, families, and musicians to go beyond their normal experiences and engage with the unfamiliar through musical encounters. Maxine Greene, one of CMW's philosophical godmothers, advocates for the arts because of their potential to take us into the unexpected, the unfamiliar, and to grow our conceptions of what our lives can mean. She challenges us to "not be willing to remain passive, to coincide forever with ourselves," but to engage with arts experiences as opportunities to open doors and move ourselves to transform.

Enjoy the elemental atmosphere of Providence's famous WaterFire with a special added element, as CMW Players perform pieces by Arvo Pärt and Kareem Roustom. Free.

John Malveaux: 'Long Beach UNTOLD HISTORY' of Concert Pianist Natalie Hinderas

Natalie Hinderas Plays Sensuous Piano Music by Berg, Ravel, Ginastera, Rachmaninov, Liszt and Saint-Georges; Natalie Hinderas, Piano; Orion Master Recordings LAN0050

John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

Concert pianist Natalie Hinderas died in 1987. When she learned that she had terminal cancer, she said to friends, "God must need another pianist in heaven." New York Times critic Raymond Ericson recounted how a business manager, reflecting the prejudice then so prevalent toward black musicians, once told Hinderas: "You know, Natalie, a little colored girl like you can't play the Hollywood Bowl." At that time she was well into a professional career as a pianist. But as triumph built upon triumph, Natalie did appear as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Metha at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer of 1972.

 

Retired Long Beach Superior Court Judge Marcus Tucker's mother was a close friend of Natalie Hinderas and the great pianist visited her home in Long Beach. Judge Tucker's mother is also deceased but Judge Tucker has clear recollections of Natalie Hinderas and we share a collection of her music. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Hinderas

John Malveaux
www.musicuntold.com

John Malveaux: 'Where do you hear and learn about your heritage in classical music?' 'Afrocentric Sounds' and 'Afrocentric Voices' of Randye Jones

Randye Jones

Selected Titles Played Today

John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

Where do you hear and learn about your heritage in classical music? No commercial or public radio stations offer programming dedicated to uplifting people of African descent. Fortunately, new technologies can help to educate. Learn about internet radio Afrocentric sounds and Afrocentric voices-two related internet radio channels. Here is the link to Afrocentric sounds http://www.live365.com/index.live#stations/singin1

 

Share this wonderful music with your children, neighbors, and friends including other ethnicities. William Grant Still is know as the dean of African American composers. He signed each composition with WE ALL RISE TOGETHER or NOT AT ALL

 

John Malveaux

www.musicuntold.com

William Levi Dawson, Composer and Professor Born September 26, 1899, Composed 'Negro Folk Symphony'; Stokowski Recording Online

The Spirituals of William L. Dawson; The St. Olaf Choir; Anton Armstrong, conductor; Marvis Martin, soprano; St. Olaf Records 2159 (1997)

William Levi Dawson

William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (1934)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJX1jCmCev8 

A YouTube posting has made Dawson's only symphony available in its entirety online.  The Negro Folk Symphony (35:44) was posted on YouTube May 23, 2012.

William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com The Dawson page discusses the recording by Leopold Stokowski:

Leopold Stokowski conducted the first performance of Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony in 1934. He also recorded the work for Decca Records in 1963. The LP recording has since been  reissued on CD by Deutsche Grammophon as DG 477 6502 (2007). Alan Newcombe says in the liner notes that the work was important to the evolution of the American symphony:  

“His Negro Folk Symphony was first performed by Leopold Stokowski with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934. After making a study of indigenous African music, in 1952 Dawson revised his work to give it a more 'African' rhythmic underpinning. While recalling the idiom of Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony and the cyclic principles of the César Franck school, not to mention Bruckner's Fourth at the opening of the last movement, the work's individuality of texture and rhythmic energy make it a significant, albeit largely unacknowledged, contribution to the development of the American symphony.”

Comment by email:
I met Dawson during a visit in Los Angeles and thereafter had several conversations with him via telephone. I greatly appreciated many of his compositions especially the haunting French Horn in the opening of his Negro Fok Symphony. During those years, I sought to produce a national radio program featuring interviews with neglected but worthy composers of African descent. I requested interviews with Dawson, George Walker and Ulysses Kay. Dawson told me that part of our problem is 'we talk to much' and I was unable to convince him of the merits of seeking to educate the public via radio interview. George Walker did not refuse to be interviewed but he was not available when I went to New Jersey. Ulysses Kay agreed to an interview. John Malveaux

Marin Independent Journal: Sept. 30 Lecture at Larkspur Library, 'The Sting at 40', on revival of Scott Joplin's Ragtime

Scott Joplin (c. 1867-1917) is featured at AfriClassical.com

Larkspur library talk to focus on cultural influence of the film 'The Sting'

Marin Independent Journal

Posted:   09/25/2013

larkspur

David Reffkin presents "The Sting at 40: a Sure Bet that Paid 29 to One" on Monday at the Larkspur library.

The talk will focus on the 40th anniversary of the movie "The Sting," and the effect its ragtime score had on popular music and the culture.

With musical examples, Reffkin will track the overnight popularity of Scott Joplin's ragtime, its influence on culture, and its rebirth as a compositional form, and follow the 40-year migration of "The Entertainer" from main title theme to ring tone.

...

The talk is set for 7 p.m. at 400 Magnolia Ave. For information, call 927-5005.

Charleston Symphony Orchestra Spiritual Ensemble & Buster-Elsie Productions announce the Colour of Music Festival, October 23-27, 2013

Colour of Music Festival, Charleston October 23-27, 2013

Debut of First-Ever All-Black Professional Classical Musicians Festival

Charleston SC September 23, 2013─The Charleston Symphony Orchestra Spiritual Ensemble, in association with Buster-Elsie Productions, is pleased to announce the Colour of Music Festival, October 23-27, 2013, a five-day all-black classical musicians festival featuring black musicians, vocalists, and orchestra leaders performing piano, organ, and voice recitals, chamber ensembles and orchestra and a newly formed Colour of Music Chorale. Over twenty performances will showcase the breadth and influence of blacks on the classical music world past and present. FULL SCHEDULE NOW ANNOUNCED NOTED BELOW.

Featuring internationally acclaimed black chamber ensemble players and various classical artists to form the orchestra, the Festival will showcase some of the top black classical musicians in the US, trained at some of the most prestigious music schools, conservatories and universities in the world converging in a number of venues including Charleston’s historic Dock Street Theatre, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Memminger Auditorium, historic Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church, Grace Episcopal Church and many others.

Maestro Marlon Daniel, (www.marlondaniel.com) Music Director of New York-based Ensemble Du Monde, Artistic Director of Festival International Saint-Georges and Principal Guest Conductor of the Sofia Sinfonietta in Bulgaria, will conduct the Festival orchestra in a stand-alone performance highlighting black composers in a special performance of the Oratorio, the Ordering of Moses by Robert Nathaniel Dett. “This first-of-its-kind festival, where professional black musicians are converging on one of America’s admired cities, inspires me to contribute to this history-making effort,” says Maestro Daniel, Festival Music Director.

“Though limited in number on American concert stages, classically trained black artists are thrilled to carry forward the legacy of Le Chevalier de Saint Georges or William Grant Still.  The festival will solidify the enormous contributions black composers and musicians have contributed to our cultural fiber and hopes to inspire young black students to further their musical pursuits,” said Lee Pringle, Festival founder and Producer for the Colour of Music Festival. Recently featured on NPR, 94-year old composer George T. Walker will be in attendance and others whose talents are not household names in the United States.

Full schedule and tickets online: www.colourofmusic.org or call (866) 811-4111.  Discount code for 10 or more: GR.  Flex passes (five programs for $99). Tickets also available at the door (cash or check) one hour before each performance.

COLOUR OF MUSIC FESTIVAL Program Schedule

October 23-27, 2013 Charleston

Marlon Daniel, Music Director

                High Noon Organ Recitals 12:00pm

            Wed Oct 23             Joyce F. Johnson, Spelman College | Grace Episcopal Church

            Thu Oct 24               Anthony Williams, Fisk University | Grace Episcopal Church

            Fri Oct 25                 Wayne A. Barr, Tuskegee University |Mt Zion AME Church

            Sat Oct 26                Nathaniel Gumb, Friendship Missionary Baptist Charlotte | Mt Zion AME Church

            Chamber Music Matinees 2:00pm

            Wed Oct 23             Mozart, Moore, Beethoven | Dock Street Theatre

            Thu Oct 24               Mozart, Saint-Saens | St. Mark’s Episcopal Church

            Fri Oct 25                 Beethoven, Mozart | Dock Street Theatre

            Sat Oct 26                Haydn, Britten, Poulenc | Dock Street Theatre

            Ebony and Ivory Piano Recitals 4:00pm

            Wed Oct 23             Myron D. Brown | Circular Congregational Church

            Thu Oct 24               Lawrence Quinnett | Circular Congregational Church

            Fri Oct 25                 David E. Berry | Circular Congregational Church

            Sat Oct 26                Sakura Myers | Circular Congregational Church     

            Chamber Evening Recital 5:30pm      

            Wed Oct 23             Ginger Jones, mezzo soprano, Aaron Mathews, piano, Alvoy Bryan, viola | City Gallery Waterfront Park 

            Thu Oct 24               Lori C. Hicks, soprano, Richard Beckford, piano, Ken Law, cello | City Gallery Waterfront Park
                                   

            Fri Oct 25                 Samuel Thompson/Cleveland Chandler, violin, Alvoy Bryan, viola, Kenneth Law, cello | City Gallery Waterfront Park
                       

            Sat Oct 26                Lawrence Mitchell-Matthews, baritone | St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
                                                Tamra Garrett, soprano, Geoffrey Duce, piano

            Special Events

            Fri Oct 25

            8:00pm                     The Ordering of Moses Oratorio | Memminger Auditorium

                                                Marlon Daniel, conductor

                                                Roberta Laws, soprano (Miriam)

                                                Nicole J. Mitchell, contralto (Voice of Israel) Robert A. Mack,

                                                tenor (Moses), Daniel A. Washington, bass (The Word)

            Sat Oct 26

            1:00pm                     Free Community Symposium: Musicians of African Descent in Classical Music| St. Mark’s Episcopal Church

           

            8:00pm                     Ode to Black Composers | Memminger Auditorium

                                                Marlon Daniel, conductor, Minerva King, narrator
                                                Josh Henderson, violin

            Sun Oct 27

            5:00pm                     Mozart Requiem & Chariot Jubilee | Memminger Auditorium

                                                David A. Richardson, Conductor

                                                Colour of Music Chorale, CSO Spiritual Ensemble 
                                                Roberta Laws, soprano, Nicole J. Mitchell, contralto

                                                Robert A. Mack, tenor, Daniel A. Washington, bass

              Tickets and additional information: www.colourofmusic.org

[Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) and William Grant Still (1895-1978) are profiled at AfriClassical.com. The website features comprehensive Works Lists for R. Nathaniel Dett and William Grant Still by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com]

Comment by email:

Thanks, Bill, I am sure Lee Pringle will appreciative for the posting. He is quite remarkable individual and leader in the Charleston Arts Community. Will try my best get there.  Kindest personal regards,  Roland [Roland M. Carter]