by barbarah_admin | Oct 7, 2021
This collection features music composed by Smith between 1940 and 1953. Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999) was born in Chicago, Illinois. She studied composition with Stella Roberts and Leo Sowerby at the American Conservatory, where she received her Bachelor of Music...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 7, 2021
Lettie Beckon Alston is Associate Professor of Music at Oakland University. Born in Detroit, Michigan on April 13, 1953, she now resides in Lathrup Village, Michigan. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music Composition from Wayne State...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 7, 2021
Dr. Eubanks (1922-2006) was a student of the well-known French teacher Nadia Boulanger. Nocturne for Solo Piano combines intellectual rigor with intense expressivity. Rachel Amelia Eubanks was born in San Jose, California. She received her B.A. degree from the...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 7, 2021
Five Interludes for Piano, by Rachel Eubanks (1922-2006), inaugurated the HMP series of Music by African American Women. The Five Interludes for Piano, composed in 1984, combine intellectual rigor with intense expressivity. Although the pitch and dynamic range is...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 7, 2021
Nora Douglas Holt was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1885, and died in Los Angeles in 1974. During her long and productive life, she was well known as a musician, journalist, and music critic. She was the first African American to earn a master’s degree in music...
