Ebony Classical
Violin music of Black Classical Composers
Violinist, Rachel Barton Pine plays music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Maud Powell, William Grant Still, David Baker, Coleridge- Taylor Perkinson and other Black composers.
Sinfonietta plans to help minority musicians
By John von Rhein | Tribune critic
January 21, 2008
The Chicago Sinfonietta has announced a new initiative designed to assist the career development of young orchestral players of color.
Project Inclusion, as the initiative is called, will provide African-American, Asian and Latino musicians with apprenticeships lasting from one to two years. Participants will rehearse and perform with the orchestra, receive mentoring from senior members of the ensemble, attend master classes and mock auditions, and receive job-placement assistance after leaving the program.
Ignatius Sancho
From African Slave to Composer & Author
AfriClassical
January 16, 2008
Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) was an African composer and author who grew up as a house slave in an aristocratic household in Greenwich, England. After emancipation he worked for the Montagu family, which allowed him to thrive, and which later enabled him to open a small shop of his own in Westminster in 1773. He campaigned against slavery, but the sugar he sold was produced by slaves. Sancho's property rights made him eligible to vote, and he cast his ballot for Charles James Fox, a leader of Parliamentary radicals in the 1780 election. Sancho is the first known Black person to vote in Britain.
Alvin Singleton
Composer
Composer Alvin Singleton was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended New York University and Yale. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied with Goffredo Petrassi at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy. After living and working in Europe for fourteen years, Singleton returned to the United States to become Composer-in-Residence with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (1985-88).
www.alvinsingleton.com
