#ClassicsaDay #BlackHistoryMonth 2022 Week 2
February is Black History Month, and a great opportunity to explore the music of black composers. That's what the Classics a Day team felt, anyway.
As always, I tried to find works and composers that I hadn't shared before during #BlackHistoryMonth. Here are my posts for the second week.
02//7/22 Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water
This is one of Bond's most-performed works. She wrote the arrangement of this spiritual in 1967.
02/8/22 Julius Eastman - Stay On It
Eastman wrote in a style he called organic music. "Stay On It" (1973) is credited with being one of the first compositions to integrate pop tonalities and improvisation.
2/9/22 Julia Perry - Stabat Mater as we grieve together
Perry wrote this work in 1951. It established her reputation as a classical composer.
2/10/22 Undine Smith Moore - Before I'd Be a Slave
Moore composed this work in 1952 for the Virginia State College Modern Dance Group. She wrote, "It follows a program which I hope is evident in the music without verbal explanation."
Regina Harris Baiocchi - Miles per Hour (for solo trumpet)
The composer wrote that MPH has a message: "Listen, I have something to say about the lineage of trumpet players and their impact on literature."
