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  • #ClassicsaDay #BlackLivesMatter Week 3

    Jul 17th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #ClassicsaDay, Classical music, Florence Price, George Walker, Margaret Allison Bonds, Ulysses Kay, William L. Dawson

    The Classics a Day team unanimously decided to make #BlackLivesMatter the theme for July. Classical music isn’t immune to systemic racism. It’s an art form that, like painting, sculpture, literature, or poetry, is a powerful form of expression for many voices. But some voices are heard more often than others. If you’d like to learn […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #BlackMusicMonth Week 4

    Jun 28th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #BlackMusicMonth, #ClassicsaDay, Classical music, George Walker, Hale Smith, Jeffrey Mumford, Rosephanye Powell, Twitter

    Since 1979, June has been African-American Music Appreciation Month. The Classics a Day team decided to adopt it for the June 2019 theme as well. Popular music genres will no doubt be well-represented by others. We’ll be focusing on the composers, conductors, and performing artists of color who have contributed to classical music. For my […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Annotated List – Week 1

    Feb 9th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WeWriteSymphonies, Florence Price, George Walker, H. Leslie Adams, R. Nathaniel Dett, Twitter, Ulysses Kay, William L. Dawson

    I’m a regular contributor to the #ClassicsaDay feed on Twitter. At a speech in Poland on 7/6/17, the President said, “The world has never known anything like our community of nations. We write symphonies.”  The next day #WeWriteSymphonies appeared on Twitter, citing all the non-Western — and non-white — composers who do indeed write symphonies. […]

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