[ Adolphus Hailstork Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3; Grand Rapids Symphony; David Lockington, conductor; Naxos 8.559295 (2007) MichiganRadio.org GR Symphony Improves Diversity Kaomi Goetz Grand Rapids, Michigan - March 25, 2008 The Grand Rapids Symphony is trying to expand its audiences to reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of the larger community. Their challenge is to overcome stereotypes about classical music and who listens to it. Joseph Conyers practices on his upright bass backstage at... Read Full Story
Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma is Professor of Music at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin as well as principal adviser for AfriClassical.com He tells AfriClassical that Dr. Mellasenah Y. Morris, an African American pianist, has accepted the position of Dean of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. She will leave her current position as Director and Professor of the School of Music at The Ohio State University in July. Mellasenah Y. Morris, a native of Norfolk... Read Full Story
[Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Members Weston Sprott, trombone, at top; Anthony McGill, clarinet, at bottom] Press Release African American Performing Arts Center 310 San Pedro Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 (505) 222-0777 March 24, 2008 Pamelya Herndon, Chairperson, Board of Directors; Donald A. Jordan, Executive Director African Americans in Orchestra: An Evening With Five Master Musicians On Thursday, April 24, 2008, the African American Performing Arts Foundation will host an evening of... Read Full Story
HarlemOneStop.com , funded by the Cultural Tourism Initiative: Harlem Symphony Orchestra Sunday, March 30 $12 Call (212) 531-5305 to order A spectacular afternoon of classical music is what’s in store as the Harlem Symphony Orchestra performs its second annual concert at the historic Apollo Theater in New York City on Sunday, March 30th at 4:00 pm. The program—featuring the music of Scott Joplin , Samuel Coleridge-Taylor , Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and a contemporary composition, “The Purple... Read Full Story
[Troy Stuart, cello] (New York, NY) March 11, 2008 ---- A spectacular afternoon of classical music is what’s in store as the Harlem Symphony Orchestra performs its second annual concert at the historic Apollo Theater in New York City on Sunday, March 30 th at 4:00 pm. The program—featuring the music of Scott Joplin , Samuel Coleridge-Taylor , Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and a contemporary composition, “The Purple Palace,” by Bruce Adolphe—will support the ongoing development of the Harlem... Read Full Story
Pegasus News: Dallas Symphony Orchestra to put on African American Festival By Pietro Elina of North Dallas Gazette “The Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced plans for the 15 th Annual 2008 African American Festival last Monday.” “ Unexpectedly, this year’s Festival will feature collaborations with Flint, Michigan’s renowned black composer Jonathan Bailey Holland , and our own community’s Dallas Black Dance Theater, who will perform Holland’s original, Primary Movements .” “Proceeds from the... Read Full Story
The African American conductor Kay George Roberts is scheduled to conduct Opera North in its Saturday April 12, 2008 performance of the opera Blake by H. Leslie Adams at 8:00 pm at Trinity Center for Urban Life, 2212 Spruce St., Philadelphia. The following information is from her page at the faculty website of the Music Department of the University of Massachusetts Lowell: Educational Background Prof. Roberts studied at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier and at the... Read Full Story
[New World Classics publicity photo of “Monisha” in Scott Joplin's “Treemonisha”] NewWorldClassics.com announces a new production of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha will be presented by the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra , whose Founder and Director is Rick Benjamin: “ WHY A NEW VERSION OF TREEMONISHA ? By Rick Benjamin The main difference between my reconstruction of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha , and the earlier efforts by others is in the orchestration. The pioneering productions of the 1970s and 80s... Read Full Story
[Melanie Nicholls-King, Concert Host] Everything BIG CED “The Apollo Family Series will kick off its Spring 2008 season on a high note with a very classic-“cal” afternoon of music with the Harlem Symphony Orchestra (HSO) on Sunday, March 30 at 4:00pm. Led by renowned conductor Amadi Hummings and featuring a collective of established musicians, the program, which will include a featured performance of Bruce Adolphe’s The Purple Palace as well as other popular classical music works, is the... Read Full Story
