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 second week. 02//7/22 Margaret Bonds – Troubled […]
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#ClassicsaDay #BlackHistoryMonth Week 3
The Classics a Day team has celebrated Black composers before. This time around, I tried to avoid duplication with previous posts. It was easy to do. There is a lot of classical music by persons of color, both in the past as well as the present. A lot. Here are my posts for the third […]
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#ClassicsaDay #BlackLivesMatter Week 1
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 […]
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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 […]