February is Black History Month, and a great opportunity to explore the music of black composers. That’s what the Classics a Day team felt, anyway. As always, I tried to find works and composers that I hadn’t shared before during #BlackHistoryMonth. Here are my posts for the fourth week. 02/21/22 David Baker – Fantasy on […]
Olly Wilson
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#ClassicsaDay #BlackMusicMonth Week 2
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 […]
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#ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Annotated List – Week 2
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. To celebrate composers of […]