Inspired by her own mixed-race heritage and career-long engagement with diverse musical traditions, pianist Lara Downes creates and curates a new digital recording venture, Rising Sun Music, that sheds a bright light on the music and stories of Black composers over the past 200 years. Featuring a wide range of leading instrumentalists and vocalists (including […]
Inspired by her own mixed-race heritage and career-long engagement with diverse musical traditions, pianist Lara Downes creates and curates a new digital recording venture, Rising Sun Music, that sheds a bright light on the music and stories of Black composers over the past 200 years. Featuring a wide range of leading instrumentalists and vocalists (including […]
On Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 9:30pm CST | 7:30pm PST, to mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Sarah Cahill presents her third concert at Community School of Music & Arts in Mountain View, CA. The performance features classical works from Cahill's latest project, The Future is Female, including music by Margaret Bonds, […]
Inspired by her own mixed-race heritage and career-long engagement with diverse musical traditions, pianist Lara Downes creates and curates a new digital recording venture, Rising Sun Music, that sheds a bright light on the music and stories of Black composers over the past 200 years. Featuring a wide range of leading instrumentalists and vocalists (including […]
"Fields of Wonder" features a newly rediscovered song cycle by Margaret Bonds set to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Cantus will perform the concert without an audience at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and it will be available online on Friday, April 9, 2021 at 7:40pm to Saturday, April 11, 2021 at 7:30pm. […]
Date & Time: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET Virtual performance filmed in Merkin Hall Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Joseph Bolougne, Chevalier de Saint-George. Learn more and get tickets here.
Nationally acclaimed new music pianist, Sarah Cahill (an ACF Champions of New Music), returns to the Sri Moonshine Music Series. Performing compositions by Terry Riley on his own Kingsbury upright piano and work by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerra, Margaret Bonds, Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, and Meredith Monk in a concert at the Camptonville Community Center. […]
Lakewold Gardens' Music from Home in-person concerts are back! Pianist, Kim Davenport is the featured performer on Sunday, August 22, 2021 at 2 PM CT | 3 PM ET. Kim will play music from Chevalier de Saint-George, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Jasmine Barnes, Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer), Jonathan Bailey Holland, Robert Nathaniel Dett, William Grant Still & […]
Coloratura soprano Louise Toppin performs a recital of art songs and spirituals of the African Diaspora featuring works by women composers such as Margaret Bonds, Harriette Davison and Rosephanye Powell; and a world premiere song cycle, "For Terry," by Maria Corley. Also included in the program are compositions by the celebrated composer Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer). […]
The New Canon Chamber Collective presents the music of Margaret Bonds and South Florida Black composer, Michael Dudley, under the stars. Join the The New Canon Chamber Collective as they finish their inaugural "Music of The Unsung America" season with a concert under the stars featuring the music of Margaret Bonds and South Florida Black composer, Michael […]
On Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 9:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM PT Pasadena Chorale presents "Given" at the First United Methodist Church of Pasadena. Featuring The Ballad of the Brown King by Black American composer Margaret Bonds, Christmas selections from Handel’s Messiah, and other holiday goodies. Accompanied by a 30-piece orchestra. Masks required, and […]