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The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City announced that an additional 50 tickets will be made available for the New York City-based contemporary music collective BlackBox Ensemble's performance in the museum's first-floor gallery Wednesday, Nov. 8, from 7-9 p.m.
Ear To Ear: Celebrating Today’s Black Classical Composers
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Adam Richardson, Aubrey Allicock, Lauren Whitehead, John Holiday, and Daniel Shirley in Daniel Bernard Roumain and Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s "We Shall Not Be Moved."
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The American classical music vernacular would never be complete without the catalogs of great composers like William Grant Still, Florence Price, and George Walker.
But even so, Black voices have been underrepresented and under-highlighted in American classical music since American composers gained a foothold in the 20th century.
As CapRadio continues to increase the number of composers of color from the past we feature on our airwaves, I think it is also all too important to take a look toward the next generation of Black composers.