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Q&A with John Wesley Wright
posted on 5:12 PM, April 26, 2021
At the Virtual Summer Workshop (July 8-10), Wright presents the opening session, “Repertoire and Civic Engagement.”
John Wesley Wright
For 25 years, John Wesley Wright has served as vocal coach for men and women at various Ohio correctional institutions in addition to directing and teaching voice, opera, acting-for-singers, and leading workshops on African American song traditions. Wright is a presenter for the 2021 NATS Virtual Summer Workshop. In this show and tell/Q&A session, Wright will highlight ways to engage students and community and to address past, present, and ongoing issues through creative programming.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, ca. 1905, photographer unknown (Public domain)
The name Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) often appears on lists of African-descended composers, but in truth I don’t know that I’d ever heard any of his compositions, certainly not in live performance. Have you, Reader?
A new CD has just appeared from Azica Records called
UNCOVERED Volume 1 that is entirely dedicated to his music, and at 79 minutes’ duration, it’s a generous sampling. It contains three early works for string quartet,
Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) op. 5 from 1895, and two quintets: one in G minor with the quartet and piano, op. 1 from 1893, and the other in F sharp minor with clarinet, op. 10 from 1906.