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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

Classical Music At The Beerfest

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When you go to a beerfest, like the one coming up in Munich are you expecting to hear any form of classical music?  If the answer is no, then patrons attending the Munich Oktoberfest are going to be quite surprised when Cellist Anna Rehker and her string quartet start playing music from Bridgerton along with some classical music hits.

Here are links to other items mentioned in the podcast:

Imani Winds and Cantus
LaScala

Manon, Like You’ve Never Heard It Before

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Heartbeat Opera in New York has a reputation for modern reimagining’s of classic operas. They did it earlier this year with their production of Manon by Jules Massenet.  Now they’ve done something they’ve never done before.  They called back the cast to record a cast album of the show. It was a revelation for the cast, especially for the two leads, Emma Grimsley and Matt Dengler.

Here are links to some of the items mentioned in the show.

The New York Philharmonic Youth Choir
The Fall Chant Retreat of the Community of Jesus

The Last “Uncovered” Album

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Since 2021, the Catalyst Quartet has released albums of the music of Black composers. 

The series called Uncovered featured the works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence B. Price, Coleridge-Taylor, Perkinson, William Grant Still, and George Walker.

The latest and last album features the works of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

The National Symphony Orchestra won’t be performing at the Kennedy Center this coming season.  They’re performing all over the Washington DC area and in other cities.

The BBC Proms continues with an All American program and a performance from the American Soprano Angel Blue.

Here are links to other items mentioned in the podcast.

Houston’s FIRST Pride Orchestra

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Some ideas nag at you over time.  That is until something happens and you have to act. 

This is what happened to Ruby Ortiz who finally decided to start Houston’s first LGBTQ+ symphony orchestra. It’s called the Houston Pride Orchestra.

Here are the links for other stories mentioned in the podcast.

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

Step by Step, the Ruby Bridges Suite

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Sometimes when someone makes a suggestion to you, it kind of sticks with you.  That’s what happened to jazz artist Darrell Grant.  He decided to act on this suggestion from a friend by composing Step by Step, The Ruby Bridges Suite.  It is a piece about the 6-year-old girl who was the first African American student to integrate the New Orleans public schools in 1960. It was not without protests, or strong resistance and a teacher who ignored the noise and taught the little girl in a classroom void of any other students.

Here are the links to the stories mentioned in the podcast.

Michael Tilson Thomas
Artists From Abroad
Black Lives In Music

Artists From Abroad

Bluey
Musical Mayhem

Keep Music In Your Life And Dementia Might Never Come

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There have been several studies on the effect of music on mental health.  This is especially true with the elderly.  A long running study out of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia is finding that dementia may be delayed in the over 70 set if music is in their lives.

Dr. Joanne Ryan is the co-author of the study.

Links to other items mentioned in the podcast.

The Sound Of Silent Film Festival The Gateways Music Festival

NEW TIMES by Judlyne A Lilly

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This play, set in 1967, is about the first African American manager of a dormitory at a prestigious women’s college.

THE CAST OF NEW TIMES

SHANNA RICHARDS –  DIANE MARSHALL

DEANDRA CHANDLER – SAGE JOHNSON

VIVIAN GLAUER – HORTENSE AMSTEN

NATALIA RIOS – MOLLY HARGROVE

JULIETTE QUITA – RAINE TAYLOR

KRISTEN MORLEY –  NARRATOR

Zara Hudson Kozdoj Remembers Who She Is

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Sometimes things happen that let you know that you are on the right path.    
This is the experience of the Zara Hudson Kozdoj of the UK.  This 29-year-old Polish-Jamaican cellist, composer and conductor isn’t all about classical music but has surrendered herself to it in bits and pieces.

She released her first album in October called Remember Who You Are. She found out while making the album that there were items about business that she wasn’t taught during her years at the Royal College of Music in London.  Then the fates stepped in again. 

Here are links to the competitions mentioned in the show.

Early Music America Scholarships

Bang On A Can