In 1955, Columbia Artists Management and Robert Shaw disinvited two Black soloists from the Robert Shaw Chorale's upcoming Southern tour. Margaret Bonds denounced their disinvitation in a press release -- and the soloists were reinvited.

March 17, 2025 Five years ago today, on St. Patrick’s Day in 2020, I set up my website , and the following day (March 18) I posted my...

Moods for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano at the International Florence Price Festival NO ONE has been more assiduous  about ensuring that the...

The latter-day rediscovery of musical and theatrical polymath Will Dixon offers today's world a much-needed opportunity -- and a challenge

As a prefatory exercise for this post, consider the “rule of 4%”: less than four percent of the players in professional orchestras with...

Dear Constant Reader, I’ve been absent from this blog for a while, partly because I needed to recharge, partly because I’m currently...

[This is the fourth in a series of posts of “blogified” short entries from the forthcoming second, enlarged edition of my Historical...

[This is the third in a series of posts of “blogified” short entries from the forthcoming second, enlarged edition of my Historical...

[This is the first in a series of posts of “blogified” short entries from the forthcoming second, enlarged edition of my Historical...

A Gospel Song by Florence Price and Langston Hughes Gets a Belated First Recording Popular exclamations about the trove of Florence Price...