Classically Black Podcast

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Donate to ISBM! https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/international-society-of-black-musicians

Check out our website: https://www.isblackmusicians.com

DSO Patron Letter

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/patron-attacks-detroit-symphony-orchestra-over-season-black-composers/

DSO Season

https://issuu.com/detroitsymphony/docs/cl21-22_digital_brochure

National Negro Opera House Grant

https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2021/04/13/National-Negro-Opera-Company-house-Homewood-Mary-Caldwell-Dawson-Jonnet-Solomon-Denyce-Graves/stories/202104130062?fbclid=IwAR26bDzgHO2z_faeO3V8oIbZuPR2SIkpi_R93gAARPAxrpW8AX_iG_LSgrE

Follow them on Instagram!

https://www.instagram.com/nationaloperahousepgh/

Titus Underwood joins CCM faculty!

https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2021/04/nashville-symphony-orchestra-principal-oboist-titus-underwood-joins-ccms-faculty.html?fbclid=IwAR17hXFV7xYj9_T7HTLI0nqGW26sD3GBQWeSFA7fysmHlr5Jpq38W9tOQYU

Listen to Titus on TRILLOQUY last week:

https://www.trilloquy.org/opuses/opus-98

Black Excellence: Marcus Norris

https://www.marcusnorris.com

https://www.instagram.com/MarcusNorris/

https://www.southsidesymphony.org

Piece of the Week: Four Novelletten, Op. 52 - Samuel Coleridge Taylor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNZkKYvp0Q4

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Learn more about NIMAN: www.niman.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niman_assoc/

Donate to ISBM! https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/international-society-of-black-musicians

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Black Lives in Music Survey

https://blim.org.uk/change/

International Contemporary Ensemble’s Afro-Diasporic Opera Forum

https://www.iceorg.org/aof

Diversity & Belonging – Unsung Keyboard Stories

https://gobluebells.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/cfp-westfield2022/

Concertia's Inaugural Emerging Composers Fellowship

https://www.representclassical.com/news-1/concertias-new-emerging-composers-fellowship-accepting-applications

NIMAN’s Bridge Matrix

https://niman.org/our-work/

Black Excellence

Nia Franklin

https://www.niaimani.com/

Piece of the Week: Evolution - Edward W. Hardy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSVu6hBMMHA

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Learn more about NIMAN: www.niman.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niman_assoc/

Donate to ISBM! https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/international-society-of-black-musicians

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Register for Price Fest

https://www.pricefest.org/register

LA Phil Sound|Stage with Mary

https://www.soundstage.laphil.com/easter-sunrise-at-the-hollywood-bowl/

Seattle Symphony Season

https://issuu.com/seattlesymphony/docs/2122_season_brochure_final_issuu/1?ff

Baltimore Symphony Season

https://my.bsomusic.org/events?startdate=2021-09-01&enddate=2022-06-30

NIMAN’s Bridge Matrix

https://niman.org/our-work/

Black Excellence: Uptown String Quartet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8yytatcESk

Piece of the week: Louisiana Blues Strut: A Cakewalk - Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU5o6RcjzCk

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This episode is supported by The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s EXCEL Lab, as part of their collaborative symposium Disruption. Action. Change. Creating a More Just and Equitable Arts Ecosystem. Please visit https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/prjc/disruption-action-change-videos/ to learn more and to see recordings of the live Q&A sessions please use this passcode: dac-access

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TW: Sexual assault

Learn more about NIMAN: www.niman.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niman_assoc/

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Thread on Charles Castleman

https://twitter.com/DalanieHarris/status/1373864931603320839

Tulsa Opera

General overview: https://operawire.com/tulsa-opera-removes-black-composer-from-concert-commemorating-race-massacre-over-one-word/?fbclid=IwAR35M_Ww1u0PvLT-DYfz8vlFaj8g-hJvoS2o82-IGoysyWDO1440lZH5kf8

Statement from Tulsa Opera: https://tulsaopera.com/2021/03/statement-from-tulsa-opera-on-the-greenwood-overcomes-concert-program/

Open letter from Black Opera Alliance: https://operawire.com/black-opera-alliance-releases-statement-regarding-tulsa-opera-daniel-roumains-removal-from-greenwood-overcomes/

Support Daniel Roumain’s composition: http://www.theystillwanttokillus.com

ROCmusic Collaborative

Website: https://www.rocmusic.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rocmusic_collaborative/

NIMAN’s Bridge Matrix

https://niman.org/our-work/

Black Excellence:

https://www.tiktok.com/@joscelyncovington/video/6940681575864552709?is_copy_url=0&is_from_webapp=v1&sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6932940907293967877

Dumbreka video: https://twitter.com/notbenmarshall/status/1369695206564593672

Piece of the week: Sonata for two violins No. 3 in A major - Chevalier de Saint-Georges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLOSpuFyOZc

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TW: Sexual assault (05:03-15:07)

Donate to ISBM! https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/international-society-of-black-musicians

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Howard University music business grant

https://newsone.com/4102262/howard-university-warner-music-group-donation-music-business-center/?fbclid=IwAR1EVJhZvzWmJGCYlIIWZpSaNLeCIDTXdWFfCXC8PjLfh5bFpzGRYnUbKNQ

Dalanie’s picks:

Women of the Windrush - Shirley Thompson OBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-YVjgCXBzE&t=175s

Katie’s picks:

Atraente - Chiquinha Gonzaga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8rB0ofBYR8

Lua branca - Chiquinha Gonzaga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rz_S_0bhOk

Black Excellence: Shirley Thompson OBE

https://shirleythompsonmusic.com/

Piece of the week: Sonata for viola and piano - Ulysses Kay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6jrvJ2XGYE

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unCLASSIFIED Women of Classical playlist: https://naxos.lnk.to/womenofclassical

Learn more at: www.unclassified.com

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niman_assoc/

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Learn more and register for the Burleigh Festival:

https://www.tnstate.edu/music/BurleighFestival.aspx

Walter and Peggy Grauman Fellowship in Music:

http://thewallisgrowblog.org/the-walter-and-peggy-grauman-fellowship-in-music/

Black Excellence: Kayla Waters

https://www.iamkaylawaters.com/meet-kayla

Piece of the Week: Suite for four double basses - Colin Brumby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQk-lxMhZs

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unCLASSIFIED Women of Classical playlist: https://naxos.lnk.to/womenofclassical

Learn more at: www.unclassified.com

Donate to ISBM! https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/international-society-of-black-musicians

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Chicago Sinfonietta MLK Tribute Concert

https://www.chicagosinfonietta.org/concerts-events/2021season/mlk-tribute/

Oberlin poster and subsequent statement

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/black-history-month/oberlin-conservatory-of-music-issues-apology-following-backlash-over-black-history-month-flier

Baltimore Symphony

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/flute/baltimore-symphony-emily-skala-coronavirus-election-posts/

Email from BSO flutist

https://twitter.com/melissawimbish/status/1362023043451789316?s=12

Chris Jenkins’ article

https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/02/26/is-classical-music-racist-an-aesthetic-approach/amp/

Black Excellence: Jermaine Stegall

https://www.jermainestegall.com

Piece of the week: Adoration - Florence Price

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-4Rwnu9NM

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unCLASSIFIED Women of Classical playlist: https://naxos.lnk.to/womenofclassical

Learn more at: www.unclassified.com

Donate to ISBM! https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/international-society-of-black-musicians

Check out our website: https://www.isblackmusicians.com

Disrupt. Action. Change.

https://iml.esm.rochester.edu/prjc/disruption-action-change/

Opera Offstage

https://www.opera-offstage.com/podcast/episode/ac298c00/50-black-excellence-with-classically-black-podcast

Where all the Twitter drama began

https://twitter.com/komaniecki_r/status/1362893872259493890?s=12

CBP Rap music thread

https://twitter.com/dalanieharris/status/1363021488547196929?s=12

Further reading/watching on the music theory situation:

Professor Ewell’s initial talk

https://vimeo.com/372726003

Professor Ewell’s paper: Music Theory and the White Racial Frame

https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.html

Journal of Schenkerian Studies responses

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dTOWwlIsuiwsgAa4f1N99AlvG3-ngnmG/view

Professor Jackson’s response to backlash

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/a-canceled-music-theorist-responds

Adam Neely’s Music Theory and White Supremacy video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

New York Times article (most recent media coverage, plus hyperlink to the lawsuit filed by Professor Jackson)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/arts/musicology-journal-race-free-speech.html

Screenshots of Professor Allen Cadwallader harassing a junior scholar via email in the middle of the night because apparently it’s that serious???

https://twitter.com/meganlavengood/status/1364960010682437635?s=12

Black Excellence: Amanda Ewing

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-51660853

Piece of the week: Ella giammai m'ammò - Giuseppe Verdi, performed by the late Antoine Hodge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11od2lQHBaM

Learn more about who Antoine was: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/obituaries/antoine-hodge-dead-coronavirus.html