Archive
January 28, 2017
Critics have described Mr. Blanchard's voice as... "dynamic and virtuosic..."rich and expressive." Among his many awards and recognitions, Mr. Blanchard was a first place winner in the Opera Memphis/University of Memphis National Singer's Search...
August 6, 2016
Wallace McClain Cheatham, born 1945, has continued to grow as a musician, researcher, and teacher. From the podium, he has introduced major works of African-American composers to audiences in Wisconsin and Illinois. His compositions,...
August 6, 2016
Born in 1914, Rogie Clark was a graduate of Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia (1935), and continued his studies as the Julliard School of Music, Chica
August 6, 2016
Cecil Cohen was born in Chicago in 1894. He was educated at Fisk University of Oberlin Conservatory. Mr. Cohen taught for many years on the faculty of Howard University in Washington DC. Possessed with...
July 2, 2020
August 6, 2016
While not African American, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's talent and influence inspired countless composers in the United States, and lead to a flowering of inquiry into Black participation in classical composition.
August 6, 2016
Will Marion Cook (1869–1944) was a composer and violinist from the United States. Cook was a student of Antonín Dvo ák and had performed for King Geo
August 6, 2016
Loñieta Aurora Thompson Cornwall, Ed.D., pianist, organist, choral conductor, arranger/ composer, is a native New Yorker, and a versatile performer an
September 22, 2016
Maud Cuney Hare (née Cuney, February 16, 1874–February 13: or 14,1936) was an American pianist, musicologist, writer, and African-American activist in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. She was born in Galveston, the daughter...
August 6, 2016
Noel DaCosta (1929 - 2002) spent his early school years in the West Indies and New York City. He received a B.A. in Music (1952) from Queens College, New York City, and an M.A....