by sarah | Aug 10, 2020
News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the death of Helen Jones Woods – a trombonist who performed with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an interracial all-female Big Band that toured widely during WWII. Jones, pictured above,...
by sarah | Aug 3, 2020
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Rhiannon Giddens – a trained opera singer, virtuoso fiddler and banjo player, founding member of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, MacArthur Genius grant winner, and composer who is pictured above. Giddens...
by sarah | Jul 27, 2020
News and music to start your week! Calling young women composers! Pamela Z, pictured above, will be presenting on her compositional process TODAY, July 27 at 5pm EST, in a free presentation on the Young Women Composers workshop series. Gabriela Lena Frank will be...
by sarah | Jul 20, 2020
News and music to start your week! Nine Black musicians spoke to the New York Times about their experiences, and describe the steps they would like to see being made in transforming the field to being more inclusive. Hear from Monica Ellis, Thomas Wilkins, Jessie...
by sarah | Jul 13, 2020
News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the passing of composer Marga Richter (1926-2020), pictured above. Sezquenza21 has an obituary with links to other remembrances, her website, and samples of her work. George Lewis highlighted more Black...
