Lara Downes's new NPR show "AMPLIFY" interviews visionary Black musicians to offer very real hope in the American crisis of 2020.

Artists have transformed the crisis of the COVID-19 shutdown into an opportunity to innovate and ensure that the music will not be silenced.

I believe we now are facing our reckoning as a country, one which was perhaps long overdue.

After 82 years, the Fantasie nègre that won Florence Price Honorable Mention in the Wanamaker Contest is making a comeback -- finally.

A small Liberal Arts college music-history sequence to abandon its "sonic refuge of Whiteness" and teach more inclusively.

A new and consciously LIVE music video of Margaret Bonds's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" offers a fresh look at her musical world.

A virtual reunion with college sophomores offers surprises, wisdom, and a snapshot of Hope for a troubled time.

The newly recovered gospel song "When the Dove Enters In" by Margaret Bonds & Langston Hughes delivers a symbolic message for our own time.

The Boulanger Initiative's programs of piano music by Florence Price help to understand how Price developed her distinctive musical voice.

41 readers ages 5-81 voice their support for #BlackLivesMatter in a collaborative reading of a Civil Rights manifesto by W.E.B. Du Bois.

In two little-known piano suites Florence Price took on popular Black stereotypes by humanizing her subjects through her music.

The time is ripe for a thorough exploration of Florence Price's teaching pieces for piano and her influence as a teacher.

Florence Price's newly published and recorded Village Scenes (1942) offer a sorely needed contemplation of tranquility, peace, and nature.

The global #BlackLivesMatter marches and Florence Price's spirituals give voice to the power of the cosmos in mandating racial justice.

Margaret Bonds's little-known settings of Robert Frost's well-known "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" teach important lessons.

Unforeseen beauties appear when we examine Florence Price and her music on her own terms. The newly unearthed “Summer Moon” is an example.

Florence Price's "The Heart of a Woman" gives eloquent voice to the issues faced by African Americans as well as women.

A little-known aspect of Felix Mendelssohn's 1840 Song of Praise shows the importance of learning and optimism in times of crisis.

Florence Price's newly published piano arrangement of the slave song "Troubled in My Mind" eloquently sounds spirit of the ancestral melody.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented disruption in our daily lives. Musicians can turn that into a creative opportunity in their art.