Honiton Museum curator Margaret Lewis
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6:00 AM March 7, 2021
Wearing black ‘widow’s weeds’ led to a demand for black Honiton lace, as displayed in Honiton museum
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Most of the country was changed in the 18th century by the industrial revolution. The 20th century created a whole industry around health and safety and during the 19th century manufacturing centred around death, funerals, and mourning.
Victorian rules for mourning were complicated and strict but did not apply as much to men as they did for women. Men wore a black crape armband (on the left arm, three inches wide, above the elbow) for three months.
Boston musicians on the Black composers to hear now
By A.Z. Madonna Globe Staff,Updated February 11, 2021, 12:41 p.m.
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Clockwise from upper left: Composers Florence Price, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Ignatius Sancho, Scott Joplin, and Twinkie Clark.Boston Globe composite
Last summer, as Black Lives Matter protests heated up the streets, it seemed like every American orchestra sent out press releases condemning racism â even those who regularly go multiple seasons without programming work by a single Black composer. With bewigged maestros occupying so many plinths in the pantheon of the Western classical canon, Black composers have long been treated as an afterthought or novelty by much of the concert-music world. But recently, a new wave of ensembles (and listeners) has begun to explore this music in earnest, treating it with the gravitas it has always deserved. Four local Black musicians with roots in the classical tradition spoke with the Globe about composers