Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained ...

Here are nine options to explore for this weekend in metro Detroit: Unidentified Maker, Mrs. Lydia Bull Royse’s School, ...

OPERA IN THE PARK Portland, in partnership with PLACE, Portland Parks & Recreation’s Community Music Center, and Y.O.U.TH, ...

In celebration of Black History Month, the First Presbyterian Church presents a new concert series celebrating Black ...

The Springfield Symphony Orchestra's third annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration concert, "New Musical World," will ...

Cann knows that many of the names on this program are unknown, but she hopes Chicago audiences will give it a chance.

Pacific Symphony and the Arts & Learning Conservatory partner to present "Symphonic Soul: A Celebration of African American ...

Next month, the Talladega College Department of Fine Arts will host a special lecture, recognizing the late African-American ...

Among her most iconic works are Troubled Water, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, and her arrangements of spirituals such as He's ...

In an essay prepared for the program, historian Sally McKee notes that Dédé’s opera “stands as the oldest extant opera score by an African-American composer.” OperaCréole founder and ...