Saturday, January 23, 2021
t2online.com: Tony-nominee Melissa Errico And Acclaimed Pianist Lara Downes Release Single of ‘Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe’
Maestra Jeri Lynne Johnson: Black Pearl @ Davos!!!: "See Me: A Global Concert" Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 1:00 PM EST
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Friday, January 22, 2021
HeraldTribune.com: "Evensongs," "The Fugitive" and "Sentence" from Ulysses Kay's "Fugitive Songs" were streamed Jan. 18 and can be heard for an extended period
Sarasota
Jan. 19, 2021
Music Review: enSRQ stirs imagination in streaming concert
Auburn Symphony Orchestra: Dr. William Chapman Nyaho is Pianist in Brahms Piano Quintet Streaming February 18, 7:30 PM PT
Creatively Connected: Brahms Piano Quintet
Emilie Choi and Sol Im, violins
Betty Agent, viola
Brian Wharton, cello
William Chapman Nyaho, piano
Program
Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34 - Composed by Johannes Brahms
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andate, un poco adagio
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Finale: Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Sphinx Organization: Register Now: SphinxConnect 2021, January 28 to 30!
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Feb. 12: Baritone Will Liverman Releases "Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers" on Cedille Records
Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers
Featuring Liverman and Pianist Paul Sánchez in Works by
Damien Sneed, Henry Burleigh, Leslie Adams, Margaret Bonds,
Thomas Kerr, Shawn Okpebholo, Robert Owens, and Robert Fariña
Out February 12, 2021 on Cedille Records
“a voice for this historic moment” – The Washington Post
New York, NY (January 21, 2021) — On Friday, February 12, 2021, baritone Will Liverman releases Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers with pianist Paul Sánchez on Cedille Records. The album features Damien Sneed’s I Dream a World, Henry Burleigh’s Five Songs of Laurence Hope, H. Leslie Adams’ Amazing Grace, Margaret Bonds’ Three Dream Portraits, Thomas Kerr’s Riding to Town, the world premiere recording of Shawn E. Okpebholo’s Two Black Churches, Robert Owens’ Mortal Storm Op. 29, and Liverman on piano in his own arrangement of Richard Fariña’s Birmingham Sunday. The liner notes of the album are written by Dr. Louise Toppin, a noted performer, scholar, and teacher who specializes in the concert repertoire of African American composers and is currently Professor of Music (Voice) at the University of Michigan.
Liverman says, “Right now, it is more important than ever to celebrate the contributions of Black composers, and I’m honored to give voice to the art songs on this album. There was an enormous amount of material to choose from; Black composers wrote so much more than just spirituals! The album is dedicated to my late mentor Robert Brown who influenced the lives of so many students through his many years of teaching at The Governor’s School for the Arts in Richmond, Virginia. I hope this album inspires you to keep striving to have our voices heard and to speak up constantly and work towards equality.”
Damien Sneed composed I Dream a World for the 2017 Carnegie Hall debut recital of baritone Justin Michael Austin. Sneed’s setting musically depicts the hope for the next generation with rich jazz harmonies, while ascending chords inch toward freedom on the line “where every man is free.” The final statement of the song, “I dream a world, my world,” leaves the listener with an unresolved final cadence that conveys a feeling of uncertainty.
Henry “Harry” Thacker Burleigh (1866 – 1949) is credited with being the first composer to create spirituals in an art song format for presentation in concert halls. He attended the National Conservatory where Antonin Dvořák was the Director and interactions led to one of the most unlikely, yet powerful collaborations in American musical history. Dvořák, who heard Burleigh singing spirituals, learned more about this vernacular song from him and Dvořák encouraged Burleigh to use the wonderful source material of his people in his own composition. The Five Songs of Laurence Hope composed in 1915 were written to the poetry of Adela Florence Nicholson (1865–1904), who wrote under the pseudonym “Laurence Hope.” Her poetry reveals, autobiographically, the tumultuous relationships in her life. She suffered from mental health issues throughout her life and when her husband died suddenly, she consumed poison and committed suicide at the age of 39.
The song “Amazing Grace” is commonly mistaken for a spiritual, as it was composed at the height of the slave trade. It was not created by enslaved Africans, however, but penned by slave ship captain John Newton (1725 – 1807). Newton wrote his famous words after praying for deliverance during a storm at sea and his subsequent conversion from slave ship captain to abolitionist is underscored in the opening line, “Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) That sav’d a wretch like me!” This song has become a prayer for comfort in times of tribulation and is frequently heard at funerals. Harrison Leslie Adams’s Amazing Grace, written in 1992, bespeaks a gratitude that bubbles with exuberant energy and hope. Adams’s composition takes the listener on a journey that pays homage to the enslaved Africans of Newton’s version as he expresses optimism for a brighter future for African Americans.
One of Langston Hughes’s favorite contemporary collaborators was Margaret Allison Bonds (1913 – 1972). A native of Chicago, Bonds and her mentor, Chicago transplant Florence Price (1887–1953), made history by winning the city’s famed Wanamaker competition. Not only did Bonds win first prize for one of her songs, but she also became the first African American to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Many of her songs reflect pride in her race, including the Three Dream Portraits written to texts of Hughes in 1959 for two prominent African American opera singers: Adele Addison and Lawrence Winters. Written at the height of the civil rights movement, they express the Black pride that became a hallmark of the blossoming Black Arts movement.
Thomas Kerr (1915 – 1988), was a pianist and organist who graduated from the Eastman School of Music with three degrees in piano and composition. His musical output included solo voice, piano, instrumental, and choral works. He was Professor and Chair of the Piano Department at Howard University, where his work as a composer and teacher influenced generations of music students. His Riding to Town (1943) is a setting of the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), the first African American poet to achieve international fame. His poetry and stories depict the oppression of African Americans during the Jim Crow era. As with Hughes, his authentic poetic voice has continued to inspire contemporary composers to produce new musical settings.
Will Liverman commissioned Shawn Okpebholo (b. 1981) to write Two Black Churches (2020) for this album. The new work is a musical diptych of two poems by Dudley Randall and Marcus Amaker that explores the impact of two watershed moments in the American Civil Rights Movement – the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 and the Charleston church shooting in 2015. The text of the first movement is a poem by Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham, a narrative account of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing from the perspectives of the mother of one victim and her child. Stylistically, this movement juxtaposes 1960s Black gospel with contemporary art song. Subtle references to the civil rights anthem, “We Shall Overcome,” and the hymn, “Amazing Grace,” are also heard. The song concludes with four sustained soft chords resembling church bells. Each of the chords is composed of four notes that punctuate and amplify the four young lives lost. The text of the second movement is a poem written especially for this composition by Marcus Amaker, poet laureate of Charleston, South Carolina, called The Rain. This poem poignantly reflects the shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church. Set in the coastal city of Charleston, which often floods, The Rain is a beautifully haunting metaphor on racism and the inability of Blacks in America to stay above water — a consequence of the flood of injustice and the weight of oppression. In this composition, the number nine is significant, symbolizing the nine people who perished that day. Okpebholo is Professor of Music Composition at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and a widely sought-after and award-winning composer, most recently winning the American Prize in Composition (2020).
Composer Robert Owens selected poems representative of a dark time in Langston Hughes’s life to tell the story of a dark time in his own personal history: the Civil Rights era and Martin Luther King’s assassination. Using poems from the 1920s (“A House in Taos”), 1930s (“Genius Child”), and 1940s (“Little Song,” “Jamie,” and “Faithful One”), he created the song cycle Mortal Storm, Op. 29 in 1969. Growing up in Denison, Texas, Robert Owens (1925 – 2017) faced his own “storms” of racism. As a result of this racial tension, he left the United States in 1968 to pursue opportunities in Germany and never returned to live in the U.S. He made his career in Germany as a pianist, composer, actor, and director.
The album closes with Will Liverman on piano in his own arrangement of Robert Fariña’s Birmingham Sunday. Richard Fariña (1937–1966) wrote Birmingham Sunday in 1964 to memorialize the bombing in 1963 of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, and Cynthia Wesley. The melody is borrowed from the Scottish folk tune “I Loved a Lass” (aka “The False Bride”). The piece was first performed by Fariña and his sister-in-law, Joan Baez. Liverman’s arrangement serves as a fitting final tribute to the struggles of African Americans. It indicates past and present injustices and provides an opportunity to refocus and reframe the American promise of equality for all its citizens. While making for a poignant and powerful conclusion to this musical offering it also serves as a reminder that the struggle against racism in America has not concluded but is very much a present struggle.
Will is the recipient of the 2020 Marian Anderson Vocal Award, and recently received a 2019 Richard Tucker Career Grant and Sphinx Medal of Excellence. Liverman’s recent engagements include the Met Opera’s holiday production of The Magic Flute, in addition to its premiere of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten and Malcolm Fleet in Nico Muhly’s Marnie. He also recently appeared as Pantalone in The Love of Three Oranges at Opera Philadelphia, as Silvio in Pagliacci at Opera Colorado, as Schaunard in La bohème with Santa Fe Opera, Dallas Opera and Opera Philadelphia; and as The Pilot in The Little Prince with Tulsa Opera. His album, Whither Must I Wander, with pianist Jonathan King, out January 2020 on Odradek Records, was named one of the Chicago Tribune’s “best classical recordings of 2020” and BBC Music Magazine praised Liverman’s “firm, oaky baritone with a sharp interpretive attitude… admirable poise and clarity of intention.”
Liverman has performed the leading role of Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Seattle Opera, Virginia Opera, Kentucky Opera, Madison Opera and Utah Opera. He originated the role of Dizzy Gillespie in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird with Opera Philadelphia, in addition to performing the role with English National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Madison Opera, and at the Apollo Theater. Other highlights include the role of Tommy McIntyre in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Fellow Travelers for its Lyric Unlimited initiative; Papageno in The Magic Flute with Florentine Opera and Central City Opera; his role debut as Marcello in La bohème with Portland Opera; his debut with Seattle Opera as Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory; Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia and Beaumarchais in The Ghosts of Versailles with Wolf Trap Opera; Andrew Hanley in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ The Manchurian Candidate with Minnesota Opera; Sam in The Pirates of Penzance with Atlanta Opera; the Foreman at the Mill in Jenůfa and the Protestant Minister in Menotti’s The Last Savage with Santa Fe Opera.
Expanding into the concert repertoire, Liverman performed the title role in a concert version of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and was a featured soloist in Brahms’ Requiem with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, in Handel’s Messiah with the Seattle Symphony, in Carmina Burana with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He was also recently featured in the Sphinx Virtuosi concert at Carnegie Hall, in addition to appearing in Schubert’s Die Winterreise at The Barns at Wolf Trap Opera.
Liverman has received a 2017 3Arts Award, a George London Award, and was recognized as a classical division Luminarts Fellow by the Luminarts Cultural Foundation. In 2015, he won the Stella Maris International Vocal Competition, received the Gerda Lissner Charitable Fund Award, and received a top prize from Opera Index. He was a grand finalist in the 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, and additionally was a first prize winner in the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, a grand prize winner of the Bel Canto Foundation Competition, and a recipient of a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation.
Liverman concluded his tenure at the prestigious Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2015. He previously was a Young Artist at the Glimmerglass Festival. He holds his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Wheaton College in Illinois. Visit www.willliverman.com for more information.
\With seven published CDs as of 2020, new releases in 2020–2021 include Mysteria Fidei, featuring new music by David M. Gordon; an album of new solo piano works by Graham Lynch; and spirituals of Shawn Okpebholo in collaboration with J’Nai Bridges and Will Liverman.
Dr. Sánchez is Director of Piano Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He is a co-founder of the San Francisco International Piano Festival, Charleston Chamber Music Intensive, and Dakota Sky Foundation. A Fulbright fellow from 2005– 2007, Sánchez earned his Master of Spanish Music degree under Maria Teresa Monteys and Alicia de Larrocha. He studied with Tamás Ungár at Texas Christian University, graduating summa cum laude, with honors; and with Douglas Humpherys at the Eastman School of Music, where he completed his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Sánchez is a New Piano Collective artist. www.paultsanchez.com
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Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers Track List
1. Damien Sneed (b. 1979) – I Dream a World [2:39]
7. Leslie Adams (b. 1932) – Amazing Grace [3:19]
11. Thomas Kerr (1915 – 1988) – Riding to Town [3:09]
TT – 60:52
*World Premiere Recording
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
DaytonPerformingArts.org: Dayton Philharmonic: "Beethoven 8 and Florence Price" Live Stream premieres Saturday, January 23 at 8:30 p.m.
Beethoven 8 and Florence Price
Duration of performance: approx. 50 minutes (no intermission)
FLORENCE PRICE Violin Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
JESSICA HUNG violin
NEAL GITTLEMAN artistic director and conductor
DAYTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra is thrilled to be back on stage in the Schuster Center with a live audience for their first Masterworks Concert of the New Year! The concert opens with Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2. Price once wrote in a letter to conductor Serge Koussevitzky, “To begin with I have two handicaps – those of sex and race. I am a woman; and I have some Negro blood in my veins,” adding “I would like to be judged on merit alone.” (www.npr.com) Merit, indeed, as her talent sparkles in this beautiful work. Concertmaster Jessica Hung takes center stage to perform Price’s composition. Then, continuing our two-year celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, the DPO performs his Symphony No. 8, a short, spirited work composed between two much more famous symphonies, yet a definite force in its own right that celebrates the composer’s playful side. The DPO offers two live in-theatre performances of this concert (with no intermission) for those who cannot wait to be back in the Schuster Center to see and hear the DPO in person, as well as a live-stream option for those who prefer to view the performance from the comfort of home.
Live Stream Premiere
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Sphinx Organization, Inc.: Announcing the 24th Annual Sphinx Competition Junior and Senior Division Finalists
- Christian Gray, bass (Boston University)
- Luiz Fernando Venturelli, cello (Northwestern University)
- Samuel Abraham Vargas Teixeira, violin (Columbus State University)
- Amaryn Olmeda, violin (Homeschooled)
- Jonathan Okseniuk, violin (Arete Preparatory Academy)
- Dillon P. Scott, viola (North Penn High School)
John Malveaux: Dr. Michael Cooper's discoveries of works by Margaret Bonds is shown in "Margaret Bonds, Langston Hughes, and the 'Note on Commercial Theater'"
John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD.com writes:
Dr. Michael Cooper's invaluable research and discoveries of previously unknown compositions by African American composer Margaret Bonds is demonstrated in his recent writing titled Margaret Bonds, Langston Hughes, and the Note on Commercial Theater https://cooperm55.wixsite.com/jmc3/post/yes-it-ll-be-me
Monday, January 18, 2021
Longy School of Music of Bard College is currently accepting applications for a position in the Composition and Theory Department
Longy School of Music of Bard College
DC Metro HBCU Alumni Alliance, Inc.: Honoring Dr. King's Legacy
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Copyright © 2021 Washington, DC Metro HBCU Alumni Alliance, All rights reserved.
Eric Conway: Morgan State University Choir Sings Charles Dickerson's "I Have a Dream" during Spring 2012 Concert
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Eric Conway, D.M.A.
Fine and Performing Arts Department, Chair
Morgan State University
Adolphus Hailstork Fanfare on “Amazing Grace” transcribed by MGySgt Donald Patterson, Member, U.S. Marine Band, The President's Own, Inaugural Prelude Jan. 20
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Arts Engines: Aaron Dworkin Interviews Trey Devey, President of Interlochen Center for the Arts
John Malveaux: Music researcher and professor Dr. Michael Cooper shared a paper about Margaret Bonds' composition NO MAN HAS SEEN HIS FACE
John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD.com writes:
Music researcher and professor Dr. Michael Cooper shared a paper about Margaret Bonds' composition
NO MAN HAS SEEN HIS FACE
FOREWORD
About the Composer
Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-72) stands as one of the more remarkable composers in twentieth-century music – woman or man, Black or White. [1] Her mother was a musician who studied at Chicago Musical College; her father, a doctor who also authored one of the first published books for Black children and the lexicon Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities (Jackson, Tennessee, 1893). She grew up in a home that, while on the segregated Black south side of Chicago, was relatively affluent and a cultural mecca for musicians and other artists of color. By the age of eight she had been taking piano lessons for several years and written her first composition, and by the time she entered Northwestern University in 1929 she had studied piano and perhaps composition with Theodore Taylor of the Coleridge-Taylor Music School, as well as Florence Price. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Northwestern University, where she had to study in the basement of the library because of her race. She earned a reputation for her social-justice activities on behalf of African Americans, and her later interviews also emphasize the deeply sexist nature of her world. In a 1964 interview with The Washington Post, she proclaimed: “I am a musician and a humanitarian. . . . People don’t really think a woman can compete in this field [of concert music]. . . . Women are expected to be wives, mothers and do all the nasty things in the community (Oh, I do them), and if a woman is cursed with talent, too, then she keeps apologizing for it.”[2] By 1967 her renown was so great that Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley proclaimed January 31 of that year as the city’s official Margaret Bonds Day. Having traveled between New York City and Los Angeles for many years for her career, she decided to relocate to Los Angeles after the death of her longtime friend and collaborator Langston Hughes in 1967. She remained based there, composing, collaborating, and concertizing, until her death in 1972.
About the Work
No Man Has Seen His Face is one of two short sacred choruses and two sacred songs on the same texts that Bonds composed in March, 1968. The words were written by Janice Lovoos (1903 – 2007), herself a multifaceted artist, critic, and librettist, and a frequent collaborator of Bonds. The autograph for the choral version of No Man Has Seen His Face is dated March 21, 1968, and on that same day Bonds also wrote two versions of the work for solo voice with piano (high key and medium key).[3] Like Touch the Hem of His Garment [...], this work reflects Bonds’s lifelong involvement with church singers and church choirs, offering high-quality music that does not exceed the technical abilities of proficient amateurs. It is also a consciously simple profession of abiding faith – an admonition and reminder that God’s presence is everywhere, and that because believers see that presence they must never doubt His existence or, more importantly, His love. Bonds’s music is largely diatonic, with plentiful major-seventh chords that reflect the influence of popular song of the 1960s. Its unaffected style cohabitates with other features that subtly bespeak her talents in the concert-music traditions – for example, the treatment of the end of the B section as an intensification of throbbing repeated chords that resolves with the return to the tonic in m. 31, and the return of this heightened emotion at the mention of divine mercy freely given (mm. 40ff). This combination of musical quality with technical accessibility explains the respect Bonds commanded in the musical world – despite her sex and her race –from the late 1930s until her death.
About the Edition
This edition generally presents Bonds’s music as she wrote it, differentiating between authorial and editorial information. Editorial slurs are perforated, and editorial dynamics, expressive markings, and tempos are presented in Roman font with brackets. Editorial extensions of dynamic and expressive markings are perforated and hooked at each end.
Four sources for No Man Has Seen His Face survive, all in the James Weldon Johnson Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University (shelfmark JWJ MSS 151 Box 7, folder 36):[4]
AS 1: Autograph full score, 7 pp., headed “NO MAN HAS SEEN HIS FACE / SATB with piano accompaniment / and Sop[rano] or Tenor Solo / Words by Janice Lovoos [space] Music by Margaret Bonds.” At the end it bears the autograph inscription “March 21, 1968 / Home of Thor and Janice Lovoos / Hollywood, Cal.” This manuscript includes autograph pencil cues to pages 3-14 of another manuscript – suggesting, since AS 1 is only seven pages long, that there is also another manuscript (now lost) of the work that is either scored for larger ensemble or written on paper of a different format – both situations that would require more paper for the same music. AS 1 also contains autograph pencil corrections that are not incorporated into the other manuscripts, suggesting that it postdates them.
CS 1: Transfer-paper copy of autograph full score, 7 pp. Although this manuscript concurs with AS 1 in most regards, it includes some subtle variants (noted in the Critical Notes below).
CS 2: Version for high voice and piano, 4 pp.[5]
CS 3: Version for medium voice and piano, 4 pp., transposed to E-flat major.[6]
Critical Notes: This edition takes source AS 1 as its copy-text. The tempo and style designation “Andantino – cantabile” is lacking in both AS 1 and CS 1 and is adopted here from CS 2 and CS 3. Notes: Mm. 30-31, S/T solo: b1 in CS1, CS 2, and CS 3, originally b1 in AS1, but crossed out and changed to d2 in pencil; m. 39, beat 4, T, B, Pf: f lacking in CS 1; m. 40 Pf: LH slur lacking in CS 1; 43-44 , A, T, B: slur lacking in CS 1 in 43, but completion included after the system break to m. 44.
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I thank the family of Margaret Bonds for their permission to publish these materials. Thanks are also due to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University for granting access to the autographs used for this edition. I also thank Elinor Armsby and Nancy Hale at Hildegard Publishing Company for their interest in this project and for shepherding it through the publishing process. Finally, I thank my family for their patience and support unending.
– Michael Cooper
[1] There is still no book-length biography of Bonds. By far the best study currently available is Helen Walker-Hill’s chapter in her From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007), pp. 140-88.
[2] Christina Demaitre, “She Has a Musical Mission: Developing Racial Harmony; Heritage Motivates Composing Career,” The Washington Post 87, no. 253 (14 August 1964).
[3] See Margaret Bonds: Three Sacred Songs, ed. John Michael Cooper (Bryn Mawr: Hildegard Publishing, 2021).
[4] This folder also includes Touch the Hem of His Garment in versions for chorus and piano and solo voice with piano, as well as autograph scores for three other works: Will There Be Enough?, Go Back to Leanna, and the “novelty song” The Animal Rock ’n’ Roll.
[5] A copy of this manuscript from the collection of Charlotte Holloman is in the possession of Dr. Louise Toppin and will soon be published by Videmus Editions (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
[6] The solo versions are published in Margaret Bonds: Three Sacred Songs, ed. John Michael Cooper (Bryn Mawr: Hildegard Publishing, 2021).