The painful story of the connections between Elizabeth Keckley and Queens University of Charlotte -- and of a modern Margaret Bonds premiere at the intersection of those two.

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...