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2022-06-27 00:03:34
Parnassus Records: "Black Swans": "This CD contains the first recordings made by black classical performers, singers and instrumentalists"
Black Swans by Parnassus Records is 79 minutes long and contains both vocal and instrumental music "dating from approximately 1917-1922..." The front cover contains warm endorsements by Grace Bumbry and Rita Dove."Performers included are:Harry BurleighEdward H.S. BoatnerFlorence Cole TalbertR. Nathaniel DettAntoinette GarnesRoland HayesHattie King ReavisClarence Cameron White"
2021-08-27 22:53:00
NYTimes.com: When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear: Spurned by institutions in America, artists were sometimes given more opportunities across the Atlantic.
[…] racial justice in the arts has always been a global effort. Europe’s role in this fight, however, deserves closer inspection. Spurned by the barriers white-dominated institutions placed on them in the United States, Black American composers and musicians have long perpetuated the idea that European audiences were more welcoming. Writing to The New York Age newspaper while studying abroad in London in 1908, the Black American composer Clarence Cameron White said as much: “On every side you find the European musician and music-lover as well realizes that music is too broad and too universal to be circumscribed by the complexion of the skin or texture of the hair.” There is some truth to White’s claim. Some of the earliest performances of William Grant Still’s music had taken place in Paris. At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in February 1933, […]
2021-02-18 01:10:00
VisitClarksvilleTN.com: Clarence Cameron White: Concert Violinist and Composer 1880-1960
Clarksville Connections Clarksville, Tennessee By: KaSandra Stone Clarence Cameron White was born in Clarksville [Tennessee] on August 10, 1880 to James, W. White, a doctor and school principal, and Jennie Scott White, a violinist. His father died when White was only two years old, and White’s mother relocated her two sons to Oberlin, Ohio, where she had studied music. His grandfather gave him his first violin when he was six years old. In 1890, White’s mother remarried, and they moved as a family to Washington D.C., where the music scene was rich and active among black communities. There, White met Will Marion Cook, who offered to give him violin lessons in the summer of 1892. White marked the lessons during that summer as the time he set his mind on being a violinist. He was only 12 years […]
2020-12-30 17:52:04
In this episode, Augustin performs Clarence Cameron White's "Levee Dance" Op. 27 No. 4 with pianist Joyce Yang. Clarence Cameron White as an American neo-romantic composer and concert violinist who lived from 1880 to 1960. PREVIOUS HADELICH AT HOME | Violinist Augustin Hadelich Performs Eddie South's "Black Gypsy" HADELICH AT HOME | Violinist […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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