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2021-03-04 00:26:00
SippicanWeekToday.com: New Bedford Symphony Orchestra Presents “Celebrating Black Culture” March 20; Tickets $20 per household
[…] The New Bedford Historical Society is dedicated to documenting and celebrating the history, legacy, and presence of African Americans, Cape Verdeans, Native Americans, West Indians, and other people of color in New Bedford. In the week leading up to the concert and at the concert itself, the NBSO and the NBHS will present interviews, videos, and other materials on New Bedford’s role in the Underground Railroad, the abolition movement, Frederick Douglass’ rise to prominence, and the Historical Society’s exciting Abolition Row Park project. The orchestra opens with Jessie Montgomery’s Banner, a brilliant rendition of the national anthem interwoven with Lift Every Voice and Sing – often called the Black national anthem. Florence Price’s Andante Cantabile is derived from the second movement of her string quartet and will be performed here in a version for string orchestra. Next up […]
2021-02-24 23:55:00
AACMSO: The public is cordially invited to join the Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra (AACMSO) on Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 6pm
Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra Presents Frederick Douglass Slave Narrative Zoom Concert SUN. Feb. 28 6:00 PM ZOOM MEETING: 834 5029 8044 Professor Emeritus Janise White writes: Dear Bill, The public is cordially invited to join the Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra (AACMSO) in a conversation with James Reese Europe's great grandson, Robert Foster Europe and Jeraldine Saunders Herbison, composer of the Frederick Douglass Symphonic Suite on Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 6pm. Panelists include Bill Doggett, Professor Vince Womack, Janise White, Founder & Director and Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Host. Best, Janise White, Professor Emeritus
2021-02-18 01:10:00
VisitClarksvilleTN.com: Clarence Cameron White: Concert Violinist and Composer 1880-1960
[…] 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 old. White continued to receive private lessons in 1894 with Joseph Douglass, another notable black violinist and the grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. From 1896-1901, White attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where his mother studied music. He studied under Frederick Doolittle, who taught Cook (the violinist who inspired White to pursue the instrument seriously). Unfortunately, White left before graduating to accept a teaching position in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The position fell through after only one month, and White won a violin […]
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2021-02-07 12:30:00
Turns Out Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman Was Inspired By Composers
Gorman: “I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that’s Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, Phillis Wheatley. And then I look to artists who aren’t just poets. While I was writing the Inaugural poem, I was reading a lot of Frederick Douglass, a […]
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