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The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach
This is the autobiography of American's internationally renowned African-American classical voice coach for concert, oratorio, and opera, as well as a distinguished arranger and interpretative authority on Negro spirituals. Mrs. Lee has been a pioneer in te musical fireld as the first African-American hired onto the staffs of the metropolitan Opera and the Curtis Institute of Music. She worked with world-acclaimed singers Elisabeth Schumann, Paul Robeson, Dorothy Maynor, Laurence Winters, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle. Her appearnce on PBS TV with Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis was a fascinating critcal interaction between artists and teacher. She has been honoured by the United Nations and the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Dreaming in Ensemble
Lucy Caplan explores the flourishing of Black composers, performers, and critics of opera in America during the early twentieth century. Working outside mainstream opera houses, these artists fostered countercultural forms of expression that reimagined opera as a medium of Black aesthetic and political creativity.
Practicing for Love: A Memoir
Practicing for Love By: Nina Kennedy Young Nina Kennedy was a child prodigy, a musical genius. Growing up in a segregated black community, she was forced to speak slang or “Ebonics” during the day to protect herself from bullying. At night, she would return home to speak the King's English with her college professor parents, both esteemed classical pianists who felt their careers had been hampered by American racism. As a result, they were determined that their daughter would have the success that they never could. Practicing for Love: A Memoir reveals Nina’s work and recognition as a child prodigy from her first complete piano recital at age nine, to her debut as piano soloist with th...
Bernstein Meets Broadway
With an innovative historical framework, Carol J. Oja explores the emergence during World War II of Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. At center stage are the mixed-race cast of "On the Town," which was their first Broadway show, the web of gay relationships surrounding the ballet Fancy Free, and a nightclub act called The Revuers.
Dialogues on Opera and the African-American Experience
Conversations with ten prominent African-American operatic artists.
So You Want to Sing Spirituals
With their rich and complicated history, spirituals hold a special place in the American musical tradition. This soul-stirring musical form is irresistible to singers seeking to diversify their performance repertoire, but it is also riddled with controversy, especially for singers of non-African descent. Singer and historian Randye Jones welcomes singers of all backgrounds into the style while she explores its folk song roots and transformation into choral and solo vocal concert repertoire. Profiling key composers and pioneers of the genre, Jones also discusses the use of dialect and other controversial performance considerations. Contributed chapters address elements of collaborative piano, studio teaching, choral arrangement, voice science, and vocal health as they apply to the performance of spirituals. The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Spirituals features online supplemental material on the NATS website.
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series
The record of each copyright registration listed in the Catalog includes a description of the work copyrighted and data relating to the copyright claim (the name of the copyright claimant as given in the application for registration, the copyright date, the copyright registration number, etc.).
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