Washington National Opera Brings Treemonisha Center Stage Discover the reimagined adaptation of Scott Joplin's 'Treemonisha' by Washington National Opera, showcasing academic freedom and the value of education.

"Treemonisha" by Scott Joplin's (1868–1917) is set in 1884 and follows an educated freedwoman on a former plantation as she navigates post-Reconstruction and affirms value of education. #BlackComposers 🎼

Director Denyce Graves
Composer Damien Sneed

Washington National Opera, D.C.
March 7, 8, 15

Looking like a mad scientist showing out!
#BlackComposers #BlackPianist #BlackMusicSky #BlackSkyMusic

was an American composer and arranger of choral music. He was best known for his settings of spirituals. Hogan was a pianist, conductor, and arranger of international renown. His works are celebrated and

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#blackcomposers #blackarrangers #blackpianists #blackconductors

Lack of criminal charges in Wardel Davis death leads to protest of Buffalo Police An investigation into the death of a Buffalo man who died while in police custody has resulted in no criminal charges against the two city police officers…

and officers handcuffed him at a Hoyt Street address [in 2017].
www.btpm.org/crime/2017-1...

Eva María Angélica Ayllón Urbina (born February 7, 1956), is a female composer and singer, one of Peru's foremost Afro-Peruvian

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#afrolation #blackmusic #blackcomposers #blacksingers

I want to add composer Edmond Dédé from New Orleans.

His opera Morgiana was thrilling.
#BlackComposers

#BlackComposers

Wow!! #BlackComposers #BlackClassical

Lifting the legacy of Black composers Every seat in the Missouri History Museum’s Lee Auditorium was filled Friday night for a gathering that honored the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by celebrating Blackness through the lens of classical music. “Let It Resound: The Legacy of Black Composers” brought together musicians of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the […]

'Lifting the legacy of Black composers'

🖋 Kenya Vaughn | The St. Louis American
📸 Taylor Marrie | St. Louis American

#stlamerican #stlnews #stlouis #RAC #ARPA #LetItResound #BlackComposers #FlorencePrice #INUNISON #SLSO #BlackMusicHistory

Meet Randall Goosby, one of classical music’s rising stars and a passionate voice for overlooked Black composers.

🎻 Watch his gorgeous mini recital of 4 Black Composers You Should Know at bit.ly/43zOSjW

#ClassicalKING #TheClassicalLife #ClassicalMusic #BlackComposers

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975)

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackjazzmusicians #blackmusicians #blacksaxophonists #blackjazzsaxophonists #blackclarinetists #blackarrangers #blackcomposers #blackbandleaders #blacksky #addtoblacksky #blackmusic #blackcreatives

Solomon Popoli Linda OIG (1909 – 8 September 1962), also known as Solomon Ntsele ("Linda" was his clan name), was a South African

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackafrican #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackmusicians #blacksingers #blackcomposers #blackmusic #blackhistory #blacksky #addtoblacksky

Célimène Daudet rend hommage à Haïti "Haïti mon amour" de Célimène Daudet vient de paraître. Dédié au pays de sa mère, cet album nous emmène sur les traces de 3 compositeurs.

Cool, thank you. 🎼

Now enjoying 3rd solo album of French and Haitian classical pianist Célimène Daudet,
"Haïti mon amour",
a love letter to her Caribbean origins via the Haitian composers
🎼 listed above.

Album, booklet
www.nomadmusic.fr/en/album/hai...

#Haïti #BlackComposers #Classical

A good day to listen to classical music. 🫶🏾🎼🎶

African American composer and conductor
🎼Harry Lawrence Freeman

Haitian composers
🎼 Justin Elie
🎼 Edmond Saintonge
🎼 Ludovic Lamothe

Ludovic Lomothe played by French-Haitian pianist Célimène Daudet

#BlackComposers #Classical #ClassicalMusic 🎶

Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston (April 6, 1926 – September 1, 2018)

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackjazzpianists #blackcomposers #blackhistory #blackleaders #blacksky #addtoblacksky

The 3rd solo album of French and Haitian classical pianist Célimène Daudet,
"Haïti mon amour",
is a love letter to her Caribbean origins via Haitian composers
🎼 Justin Elie, Edmond Saintonge et Ludovic Lamothe.

Album, booklet
www.nomadmusic.fr/en/album/hai...

#Haïti #BlackComposers #Classical

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was a [british] composer and conductor. He was particularly known for his three cantatas on the epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by

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#blackhistory #blackbritish #blackconductors #blackcomposers #bracial #blacksky #addtoblacksky

The Scores Project: String Music (1960) This score for a solo string instrument doubles as a work of visual art. Its imaginative and inventive four pages propose a novel symbolic system of musical notation. Each circle is a sound event: a l...

Quite the inventory of techniques in this score for “String Music” (1960) by Benjamin Patterson. Subsequent pages are worth a look—wd love to hear a performance of this!

#scoresproject #musicology #blackcomposers #fluxus #academicsky #booksky #arthistory #doublebass

www.getty.edu/publications...

The Scores Project: Benjamin Patterson's notes on philosophy and art (selections) (1960s) These pages of Benjamin Patterson’s notes on art were recorded during the 1960s. His reflections, though often fragmentary, are deeply philosophical and speculative, ranging on topics from communicati...

Major inspo: an entire notebook of bassist/composer Benjamin Patterson’s thoughts about art in the early 1960s.

#scoresproject #arthistory #musicology #fluxus #academicsky #blackcomposers #booksky #performanceart

www.getty.edu/publications...

Sometimes I think about Miles Davis and how he used to go into sessions with an idea how he wanted everyone to play. Obviously there was a lot of room for improvisation too.

Phenomenal :)

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#blackmen #blackmusic #blackcomposers #blackbandleaders #blackjazztrumpeters #blacksky #addtoblacksky

'William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackjazzcomposers #blackpianists #blacklyricists #blackarrangers #blackcomposers #blackmusicians #blackhistory #blacksky #addtoblacksky

King of Cool released in 2021

Dean Martin was not the King of Cool

That is Miles Davis

#film #blackmusicians #blackmen #blackamerican #blackjazztrumpeters #blackbandleaders #blackcomposers #blacksky

Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III (born April 17, 1941) is an American composer and educator. He was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in Albany, New York,

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#blackmen #blackcomposers #blackeducators #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackprofessors #blacklecturers #blacksky #addtoblacksky

🎼 Black composers scoring in secret, ignored by the industry? We honor your brilliance. #BlackComposers #AdoptABlackArtist 🎶👇 Nominate now.

John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist,

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackhistory #blackjazzpianists #blackpianists #blackmusicians #blackcomposers #blackarrangers #blackfounders #blackmusicaldirectors #blackdirectors #blacksky #addtoblacksky

New work loading… #400Forward #BlackMusic #BlackComposers #MusicistheheingforceoftheUniverse

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Jair Rodrigues M. Oliveira (Jairzinho Oliveira, born March 17, 1975, in São Paulo, São Paulo) is a Brazilian composer, singer and producer...

In the early 1980s Jair

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blacksingers #blackcomposers #blackproducers #afrolatino #hispanic #latinosky #blacksky #addtoblacksky

Posting in honor of Black History month #classicalpiano #blackcomposers
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New Orleans-based Opera Créole and Opera Lafayette's joint poduction of Edmond Dédé’s (1827-1901) opera "Morgiane" is magnificent!
💜🎶🎼👑

#BHM #opera #Classical #BlackComposers

Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane Did you know that the first complete opera by a Black American has been hidden in a single manuscript for over 130 years? Edmond Dédé, a fourth-generation free person of color born in 1827 New Orleans...

#BlackHistory #Opera #EdmondDédés #Morgiane
#BlackComposers