How Britain's Chineke! is changing classical music
In the United Kingdom, performer Chi-chi Nwanoku saw a way to create diversity – and broaden perspectives on orchestra music and members.
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In the United Kingdom, performer Chi-chi Nwanoku saw a way to create diversity – and broaden perspectives on orchestra music and members.
By any measure, a Florence B. Price renaissance is well underway. Seven decades after her death and nine after the groundbreaking premiere of her S
Samantha Ege, a musicologist and concert pianist, is a research fellow at the University of Southampton, and Douglas Shadle is a musicology professor at…
Hits from Renée Fleming’s career at the Metropolitan Opera, an unlikely Mozart and Beethoven recording and Florence Price are among the highlights.
Douglas Shadle is an associate professor of musicology at Vanderbilt University and a leading authority on Arkansas native Florence Price. Shadle says Price comes from a line of American composers in the 1800s who were ignored by their local orchestras in favor of European composers like Brahms.