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The Art Songs Now “In Plain Sight”.  AND the musical life of the colonists during the revolutionary war.

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There are so many musical works that have been lost to history.  Joshua Conyers and the faculty and students at the Eastman School Of Music in Rochester, NY has recorded over 40 of them in an album called In Plain Sight, The Black Anthology.

In recognition of the nation’s 250th, there’s the first part of a three-part series about the musical lives of the colonists during the Revolutionary War.  Music professors at the University of Texas in Austin, Andrew F. Dell’Antonio and Hannah Lewis offer some fascinating information about it. 

Here’s the link to the Spoleto USA request for souvenirs

Here Be Monsters 2026

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Hundreds of people are expected to  voluntarily step outside of their musical genre mode this weekend and hear something new, and different and maybe even odd.

It’s time for the annual HERE BE MONSTERS, Austin’s Indie-Classical music festival. 

Co-director Michael Zapruder of Tetractys says this is a growing movement within the classical or near classical genre of new music.

Here are links to some of the stories mentioned in the Classical Music In Colors podcast. 

The Black Declaration of Independence

The Het Concertgebouw’s Festival Mind the Gap!

The Chicago Sinfonietta

Nina Simone and Samuel Waymon Music Scholarship Fund