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#WeWriteSymphonies

  • #ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Week 4

    Aug 28th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WeWriteSymphonies, Eleanor Alberga, Margaret S. Bonds, Toru Takemitsu, Twitter, Valerie Capers, Zenobia Powell Perry

    Last month the Classics a Day team made #BlackLivesMatter the theme. Systemic racism in classical music has limited exposure to composers of color. So for August, the team opened up the focus even further. #WeWriteSymphonies is a hashtag used by composers of color, and it seems like a logical extension of #BlackLivesMatter. For my contributions […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Week 3

    Aug 21st, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WeWriteSymphonies, Alberto Ginaster, Classical music, Corie Rose Soumah, Ignatius Sancho, Mozart Camargo Guarnieri

    Last month the Classics a Day team made #BlackLivesMatter the theme. Systemic racism in classical music has limited exposure to composers of color. So for August, the team opened up the focus even further. #WeWriteSymphonies is a hashtag used by composers of color, and it seems like a logical extension of #BlackLivesMatter. For my contributions […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Week 2

    Aug 14th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WeWriteSymphonies, Carlos Chavez, Classical music, Francis Johnson, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Isang Yun, Leo Brouwer, Twitter

    Last month the Classics a Day team made #BlackLivesMatter the theme. Systemic racism in classical music has limited exposure to composers of color. So for August, the team opened up the focus even further. #WeWriteSymphonies is a hashtag used by composers of color, and it seems like a logical extension of #BlackLivesMatter. For my contributions […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Week 1

    Aug 7th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WeWriteSymphonies, Blind Tom, Cacilda Borges Barbosa, Chinary Ung, Clarence Cameron White, Classical music, Silvestre Revueltas, Twiter

    Last month the Classics a Day team made #BlackLivesMatter the theme. Systemic racism in classical music has limited exposure to composers of color. So for August, the team opened up the focus even further.  #WeWriteSymphonies is a hashtag used by composers of color, and it seems like a logical extension of #BlackLivesMatter. For my contributions […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Annotated List – Week 4

    Mar 2nd, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WeWriteSymphonies, Edmond Dédé, José Maurício Nunes Garcia, José Silvestre White Lafitte, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Twitter, William Grant Still

    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. […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Annotated List – Week 3

    Feb 23rd, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WeWriteSymphonies, Adolphus Hailstork, Diedre Murray, Jeffrey Mumford, Julia Perry, Twitter

    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. […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Annotated List – Week 2

    Feb 16th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WeWriteSymphonies, Alvin Singleton, Kenneth Amis, Olly Wilson, Rosaphanye Powell, Twitter, Undine Smith Moore

    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 […]

  • #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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