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Art Songs by Black Composers, 1760-1830: a Benefit Concert to Support the Black Lives Matter Movement
Natalie Ingrisano: soprano, Henry Lebedinsky: piano.
With this concert we honor the specific calls to action from friends and colleagues who are musicians of color in the classical music community to take action and protest with music and our platform:
1)Share music in protest and #taketwoknees (-Anthony McGill).
2)Create benefit concerts to help fund the organizations supporting the Black Lives Matter movement (-Maestro Brandon Keith Brown).
3)Flood our social media platforms with performances of works by composers of color (-Joe Williams)
(There is a specific request in his call to action, which we are working on NEXT, which is to highlight the music of women-identifying living composers of color in these social media performances.)
Click here or on the video above to watch the performance, which resides now on my YouTube channel. The Venmo Pool for this benefit concert has timed-out, but you can still donate to many organizations directly that will help benefit the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Click Here for a list of some options and direct links to donate in support of the movement, for petitions you can sign, and for some public domain SHEET MUSIC (for my musician friends out there) who would like to learn and perform music of these four composers. If you are unfamiliar with them or their works, we encourage you to please familiarize yourself with them beyond this small online concert!
Click Here for a list of many Black-led organizations and ensembles that are ALREADY doing the work to promote equity, visibility, and accessibility for performers of color and composers of color in the classical music world and beyond. What Henry and I did here is not novel, many people have been working towards this goal for a long time, and we are trying to support those efforts. Got support THEM! Learn about THEM! Know THEM!
With this concert we honor the specific calls to action from friends and colleagues who are musicians of color in the classical music community to take action and protest with music and our platform:
1)Share music in protest and #taketwoknees (-Anthony McGill).
2)Create benefit concerts to help fund the organizations supporting the Black Lives Matter movement (-Maestro Brandon Keith Brown).
3)Flood our social media platforms with performances of works by composers of color (-Joe Williams)
(There is a specific request in his call to action, which we are working on NEXT, which is to highlight the music of women-identifying living composers of color in these social media performances.)
Click here or on the video above to watch the performance, which resides now on my YouTube channel. The Venmo Pool for this benefit concert has timed-out, but you can still donate to many organizations directly that will help benefit the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Click Here for a list of some options and direct links to donate in support of the movement, for petitions you can sign, and for some public domain SHEET MUSIC (for my musician friends out there) who would like to learn and perform music of these four composers. If you are unfamiliar with them or their works, we encourage you to please familiarize yourself with them beyond this small online concert!
Click Here for a list of many Black-led organizations and ensembles that are ALREADY doing the work to promote equity, visibility, and accessibility for performers of color and composers of color in the classical music world and beyond. What Henry and I did here is not novel, many people have been working towards this goal for a long time, and we are trying to support those efforts. Got support THEM! Learn about THEM! Know THEM!
Due to COVID-19, all in-person concerts have either been canceled or postponed for the near future. In the mean time, there are Virtual Concerts being planned for streaming online, so be sure to check the calendar page stay tuned for updates!
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