The music of African American classical composers is rarely performed on concert stages in Europe and the US. Baritone Thomas Hampson wants to change this.
Berlin, city of music, goes online
Oxford plans to change curriculum
The University of Oxford has recognized the lack of diversity in its curriculum. Recently, Britain s
The Sunday Telegraph wrote that editors had seen proposals for changes to undergraduate courses at the elite university to include more diverse forms of music in its curriculum.
Professors and students had criticized that there were too many works by white European composers from the time of slavery, including music by Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn. According to
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Black classical composers to listen to
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
He died of syphilitic dementia and was buried in an unmarked grave. His opera Treemonisha wasn t performed until seven decades later. But Scott Joplin s Maple Leaf Rag and 43 other ragtime piano pieces made him one of the 20th century s most influential composers. Melody in the right hand, accompaniment in the left, and those syncopations! Jazz? No, thoroughly classical i
Baroque and Wine: A Trip to Würzburg
The composer Andrea Falconieri, who lived in Naples, was one of the first to popularize the dance rhythms of the folia around the year 1650. From Naples, the folia spread to Rome and Venice, and on to central Europe. This program takes us along on that journey.
A young organist and composer in Cremona, Italy by the name of Tarquinio Merula used the crazy obsessive rhythm of the folia in songs like Folle é ben che si crede, beginning with the words: Anyone who thinks that I can be kept away from my sweetheart by tender glances or by slander is crazy.