You could call the new album American Counterpoints another encouraging result of the push in recent years, especially after the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, to better represent and ...
Perry was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1924, and launched her career in the early 1950s with the success of her choral work Stabat Mater. She won Guggenheim fellowships, studied with Nadia Boulanger in ...
A new album, American Counterpoints, reasserts the importance of two 20th century Black composers whose work has been neglected. Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor ...