Florence Price’s Rainbow Waltz and the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert It’s been a while since I’ve had time to blog because work on the world premiere of Margaret Bonds’s late musical on the life of Elizabeth Keckley, Bitter Laurel , has taken all the time and energy I have apart from what’s devoted to my teaching and my beloved family. But since January 2 something else has been knocking at my door, unwilling to go away. So here I am. And I think the best way to sta

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.