Today we continue our celebration of Black History Month with a composer/performer/entrepreneur you may not know, but one we think you should and will enjoy…flutist Valerie Coleman. And we are not alone in accolades of her. She was recently named…
Along with those Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the first Coffee Concert of the New Mexico Philharmonic on Friday, February 11th at 10:45 a.m. will feature a work by another Black composer, George Walker. His beautiful Lyric for Strings…
With a name like that, you would expect him to be dashing and handsome. And indeed he was! The first classical composer of African descent we know of is the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. He was born Joseph Bologne on Christmas…
All this month I will be blogging about the many important contributions that Black musicians have made to classical music throughout history. I’m going to begin with a 20th c. African-American woman composer that Alexis Corbin has been highlighting for…
In the words of Linda Holzer (from an article at claviercompanion.com), “Florence Price, a child prodigy in music from Little Rock, Arkansas, scaled the fence of segregation, and soared beyond its limits.” She was a child prodigy who was denied…