African Musical Arts Inc.: Intercultural Music Initiative Concert Season Opener, St. Louis, MO Nov. 20, 4 PM

[Fred Onovwerosuoke]

Intercultural Music Initiative

Concert Season Opener!

WHO: Presented by African Musical Arts, Inc.

(www.africarts.org)

WHAT: IMI Chamber Players

Tanya Couture, violin

Wendy Hymes, flute

Anna Lackschewitz, viola

Melissa O’Neal, cello

Laura Garritson-Parker, piano

Fred Onovwerosuoke, piano

and, Rose Marie Fischer, soprano

WORKS BY:

Gamal Abdel-Rahim

Ludwig van Beethoven

Adolphus Hailstork

Ted Lucas

Undine Smith Moore

Fred Onovwerosuoke

WHEN: Sunday November 20, 2011 (4:00PM)

WHERE: Centene Center for Arts & Education

3547 Olive Street (4th Floor)

St Louis, MO 63103

TICKETS: Free, limited seating!

Please call African Musical Arts Box Office

at 314-652-6800 to reserve

Visit our website at www.africarts.org

Intercultural Music Initiative Concert Series presents classical and contemporary works by composers of African, Hispanic and Asian-descent along with standard repertoire. Programs offer a unique concert experience and help integrate new musical works by lesser-known composers into existing performance repertoire. [Adolphus C. Hailstork (b. 1941) is featured at AfriClassical.com]

NANM 2011 Scholarship Competition in Voice, Ben Holt Branch, Washington, D.C. March 20 7 PM

[Ben Holt (Christian Steiner)]

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEGRO MUSICIANS, INC.

2011 Scholarship Competition in Voice

FINAL ROUND

The Ben Holt Memorial Branch
Patrick D. McCoy, President

Washington D.C.

Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 7 PM

Free and Open to the Public!

Join us as the final three contestants compete
to represent the branch at the regional convention

Sixth Presbyterian Church

5413 16th Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 2011

Ben Holt Memorial Branch of the NANM announces scholarship competition in voice March 19 & 20

[Ben Holt (Photo by Christian Steiner)]

Patrick D. McCoy sends this news:

The newly formed Ben Holt Memorial Branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. announces its local scholarship competition in voice. Contestants between the ages of 18-30 years old pursuing vocal music study are encouraged to apply. The competition will be held in two rounds, the first round on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 4 PM and the final round on Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 7 PM at Sixth Presbyterian Church in NW Washington, D. C. The winner of the local competition will represent the Washington, D. C. branch at the regional convention in April.

For additional requirements and rules about contest eligibility, please visit http://www.nanm.org/Scholarship_competition.htm for all competition requirements. All materials are to be sent in as a complete competition packet consisting of application, competition fee in the form of a check/money order made payable to the Ben Holt Memorial Branch and a CD recording including 1 aria and 1 art song. All materials are to be mailed to local branch Takoma Park Baptist Church, Attention: Patrick D. McCoy, 635 Aspen Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20012. For additional questions contact William Jones at (202) 270-4004.

Listen to my interview with composer and conductor of the Concordia Choir, René Clausen

Listen to my interview with Opera Super Star: Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves

"The African-American Voice in Classical Music"
Patrick D. McCoy

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/patrickdmccoy

Ritz Chamber Music Society: Feb. 20 Program of Amadi Azikiwe, Violist and Mary Prescott, Pianist

On. Feb. 4 AfriClassical posted: “Violist Amadi Azikiwe and Pianist Mary Prescott Perform Sun. Feb. 20, 645 Oak Street, Jacksonville, Florida.” We subsequently received an inquiry about the program from Dr. Chris Foley of The Royal Conservatory in Toronto, who writes the blog Collaborative Piano, http://collaborativepiano.blogspot.com/. Maxwell H. Lee, Programs Coordinator for the Ritz Chamber Music Society, Inc. writes: “Greetings, Below is the program!”

PROGRAM:

Suite no. 5 in c minor for Violoncello Solo BWV 1011

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude

Allemande

Courante

Sarabande

Gavotte I

Gavotte II

Gigue

Romance in f minor, op. 11

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

Fantasy in C for violin and piano D934

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Mary Prescott, piano

INTERMISSION

Blue/s Forms

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004)

Plain Blues

Just Blues

Jettin' Blues

Sonata for Grand Viola

Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)

Introduzione

Andante Cantabile

Tema con variazione

Mary Prescott, piano
[Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a complete Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma]

Encyclopedia.com: 'The British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was the first major classical composer of African descent.'

[Missa de Santa Cecília, Vol. 1; José Mauricio Nunes Garcia; Orquesta Sinfônica Brasileira; Atracao (2004)

On November 6, 2010 AfriClassical posted: “Was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) '...the first major classical composer of African descent?” We explained that an article on the composer at Encyclopedia.com started with this statement: “The British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was the first major classical composer of African descent.” We noted, “To say that he was '...the first major classical composer of African descent' is to disregard at least two earlier composers who are also featured at AfriClassical.com” We identified them as the Afro-Brazilian composer José Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767-1830) and the Afro-French composer Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)

AfriClassical.com was founded to promote awareness of African Heritage in Classical Music. For more than 10 years we have concentrated on creating awareness of composers and performers of African descent in the genre of Western Classical Music. In this case the life of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is presented, but the reader is also led to believe that this composer is the earliest major classical composer of African descent. In fact, such a composer was born at least as early as 1745, about 130 years earlier. This misrepresents the period in which such composers lived by more than a century. That is a significant discrepancy.

Encyclopedia.com is copyrighted by HighBeamTM Research, Inc., so after we failed to receive a response to our online comment made on the encyclopedia's web form, we phoned HighBeam. A company representative told us that HighBeam Research cannot make changes to the content of articles provided by the various publications. This article is found at: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2506300046.html and is labeled as being from the Encyclopedia of World Biography. As of this writing the sentence in question remains online.

On the same page is this message:

“For students and teachers!

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: (Logos of World Encyclopedia, Oxford University Press, and The Columbia Encyclopedia)”

'Nu Rho Sigma Eta Beta Mu Fine Arts Fraternity, Inc.: Negro Philharmonic Society of Historically Black Musicians'

[The Music of Francis Johnson & His Contemporaries: Early 19th-Century Black Composers; Diane Monroe, Violin; The Chestnut Brass Company and Friends; Tamara Brooks, Conductor; Music Masters 7029-2-C (1990)]

NuTyme.org

“Nu Rho Sigma Eta Beta Mu Fine Arts Fraternity, Inc.: Negro Philharmonic Society of Historically Black Musicians”

“Welcome to the Official Site of the ONLY Fine Arts Fraternity in the world. I bring you greetings on behalf of Nu Rho Sigma Eta Beta Mu Fine Arts Fraternity, Incorporated. We are a Fraternity made up of Men & Women to bring a common bond of the Arts to Cities and College Campuses.”

The 11 “Musicians of the Negro Philharmonic Society” are the same individuals listed as “Musicians of African Descent” by AfriClassical.com, except for the spelling of the surname of James DePreist. The 41 “Composers of the Negro Philharmonic Society” include two whose names have been deleted from the AfriClassical.com roster of “Composers of African Descent,” Juan Morel Campos of Puerto Rico and Solon Verret of Haiti. AfriClassical.com removed Juan Morel Campos from the website when his African heritage could no longer be substantiated. He was replaced by Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999), who taught Reading for more than 40 years in the Chicago Public Schools. So little documentation is available on Solon Verret that his former page has been incorporated into a new page on one of his students, Julio Racine of Haiti.

The correct year of publication of A Collection of New Cotillions by the Philadelphia musician and composer Francis B. “Frank” Johnson (1792-1844) is 1818. It is not our understanding that he was a founder of the Negro Philharmonic Society of New Orleans. Composers and Performers of Black Classical Music deserve much more recognition by fine arts organizations than they have received to date, and it is to be hoped that the Nu Rho Sigma Eta Beta Mu Fine Arts Fraternity, Inc. will help increase awareness of these artists among performers and audiences like.