As a conductor who can often be found in the pit of an opera house, many hours of Kazem Abdullah’s..
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In July 2022, I reviewed Fierce for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. The commission by Cincinnati Opera featured music by William..
Quiet as it’s kept, the banjo is an instrument of the African diaspora. In a performance at the Metropolitan Museum..
For me, 2022 was a paradoxical year filled with confusing contradictions. I attended significantly more live performances, but despite this,..
Before and during the American Civil War, anti-literacy laws suppressed many of the individual stories of Black people enslaved in..