Tag: OPERA America

  • Monday Link Round Up: May 24, 2021

    Monday Link Round Up: May 24, 2021

    News and music to start your week! Read about the beautiful collaboration that is occurring in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou.  Japanese composer Keiko Fujiie and a Burkinabè griot (traditional story-teller and musician) Maboudou Sanou (pictured above) are working together to develop an opera based on a novel by Moyi Mborangon.  The BBC has the…

  • Monday Link Round Up: November 23, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: November 23, 2020

    News and music to start your week! Ellen Taylor writes for Voice about what she learned after a presentation about Black classical music by pianist and musicologist Dr. Samantha Ege, pictured above.  Dr. Ege is a particular champion of the works of Florence Price, including a recording project featured in The Bristol Magazine. Classical FM…

  • Monday Link Round Up: July 20, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: July 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 Montgomery, Rodrick Cox, Anthony McGill, Lawrence Brownlee, Terence Blanchard, Latonia…