Music

In this under 2:00 snapshot, R. Larry Todd attends to Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

A 7:21 biographical sketch with musical demonstrations and primary source illustrations. From the National Philharmonic description: "Ruth Crawford Seeger, once a budding classical composer, found her way to folk music during the Great Depression. Rebecca Smithorn, Cover Conductor and Lecturer with the National Philharmonic talks about how this moment of world crisis not only influenced Seeger's choice to pursue folk music would also end up having a huge impact on her own stepson, Pete Seeger."

Description of this 41:22 lecture recital: "Dr. Samantha Ege performs and discusses the works of Florence Price in celebration of the composer's birth month. Price was the first Black woman composer to achieve national and international prominence, but she was not an anomaly in classical music. Price belonged to a vibrant community of Black female practitioners in Chicago. In conversation with LMH Principal Alan Rusbridger, Dr. Ege delves into Price's life, music, and legacy."

Via Films on Demand
Description: "At Festival Mozaic, Scott Yoo and his wife, the flutist Alice Dade, get to know America's greatest Romantic composer, Amy Beach, and European women composers of her time. Across the country, they explore Beach's New England roots and career, in a time when polite society looked down on women composers. Despite this resistance, Beach was one of the first to try to invent a truly American music."

"Vicente Lusitano was a sixteenth-century composer and musical theorist perhaps most famous for winning a public debate with Nicola Vicentino and for his important book on theory entitled Introdutione facilissima et novissima de canto ferma (1553). Although he has long been a well-known figure among musicologists, the fact that he was Black has been almost entirely erased from memory. . . "

"Founded in 1997, this is the home of interchange between performers and scholars interested in art song by African-American composers. Here you will find information and links to assist with your discovery of our contribution to song."

"Here you will meet 52 composers, conductors and instrumental performers - Africans, African Americans and Afro-Europeans. Many are alive today, but one lived 500 years ago! These artists are unknown to most of us, yet are so numerous this site can present only a fraction of them. They have made enduring contributions to Classical Music. Several have composed, conducted and performed Classical Music. "

New York Times, 2025 (January 28), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/arts/music/edmond-dede-morgiane-opera.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE4.MSSP.l0jZMlOCPsBs&smid=url-share

The manuscript score of Morgiane is on display at the Folger through March 2, 2025