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Tuesday Open Thread: Black Classical Music Composers
GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! JOSEPH BOLOGNE, CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (December 25, 1745 – June 10, 1799)[1] was a champion fencer, a virtuoso violinist and...
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Wednesday Open Thread: Black Classical Music Composers
HAPPY HUMP DAY P.O.U.! FLORENCE BEATRICE PRICE Florence Beatrice Price (April 9, 1887 – June 3, 1953) was an African-American classical composer. She was the first African-American woman to be...
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Thursday Open Thread: Black Classical Music Composers
GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! JULIA PERRY Julia Amanda Perry (25 March 1924 – 12 October 1979) was an American classical composer and teacher who combined European classical and neo-classical training with...
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Friday Open Thread: Black Classical Music Composers
HAPPY FRIDAY P.O.U.! SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was an English composer of part Creole descent who achieved such success that he was once...
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Saturday Open Thread: Black Classical Music Composers
GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! ROBERT NATHANIEL DETT Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a composer, organist, pianist and music...
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Monday Open Thread: Black Conductors
GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! This week series is devoted to Black conductors. CHARLES DEAN DIXON Charles Dean Dixon (January 10, 1915 – November 3, 1976) was an American conductor. Career Dixon was born in...
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Tuesday Open Thread: Black Conductors
GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! EVERETT LEE Everett Lee (born August 31, 1916)[1] is an American conductor and violinist. He was the first African American to conduct a Broadway musical, the first to “conduct...
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Wednesday Open Thread: Black Conductors
HAPPY HUMP DAY, P.O.U.! JERI LYNNE JOHNSON From The Philadelphia Citizen, May 2016 MEET THE DISRUPTOR: JERI LYNNE JOHNSON The founder of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra takes the elite out of...
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Thursday Open Thread: Black Conductors
GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! HENRY LEWIS Henry Jay Lewis, musician and conductor, was born October 16, 1932 in Los Angeles to automobile dealer Henry J. Lewis, and nurse Mary Josephine Lewis. Lewis started...
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Saturday Open Thread: Black Conductors
GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! JAMES DEPREIST James Anderson DePreist (November 21, 1936 – February 8, 2013)[1] was an American conductor.[2] DePreist was one of the first African-American conductors on the...
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