{"id":43090,"date":"2015-10-05T19:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43090"},"modified":"2015-10-05T19:31:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:31:21","slug":"ten-black-composers-whose-works-deserve-to-be-heard-more-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43090","title":{"rendered":"Ten black composers whose works deserve to be heard more often"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten black composers whose works deserve to be heard more often<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2015-06-02<\/p>\n

John Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nEnglish composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor<\/a> (1875-1912). Photograph: Unknown\/Hulton-Deutsch Collection\/CORBIS<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The newly formed Chineke orchestra aims to include a work by a composer of ethnicity in each of its concert programmes<\/a>. John Lewis looks at some of the neglected writers whose music might finally get an airing<\/em><\/p>\n

In the past 200 years, dozens of prominent black composers from America and other parts of the African diaspora have fought to be recognised by the western classical tradition. The earliest example is Chevalier de Saint-Georges<\/a> (1745-99). Born in Guadeloupe<\/a>, the son of a wealthy plantation owner and a female slave, Saint-George was brought to France<\/a> at a young age. As well as being a champion fencer, a violin teacher to Marie Antoinette<\/a> and a colonel in the republican army, his prodigious musical talents led to him being dubbed \u201cle Mozart<\/a> noir\u201d. He was a prolific composer (with several operas, 15 violin concertos, symphonies and numerous chamber works to his name) and a rare French exponent of early classical violin composition. (Listen to Chi-chi Nwanoku\u2019s<\/a> radio documentary about him here<\/a>.)…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten black composers whose works deserve to be heard more often The Guardian 2015-06-02 John Lewis English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Photograph: Unknown\/Hulton-Deutsch Collection\/CORBIS The newly formed Chineke orchestra aims to include a work by a composer of ethnicity in each of its concert programmes. John Lewis looks at some of the neglected writers whose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,28,459,8,10,20],"tags":[1389,20919,21299,21300,21295,21294,21296,1392,21293,21298,21297,11941],"class_list":["post-43090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-usa","tag-chevalier-de-saint-georges","tag-chi-chi-nwanoku","tag-florence-b-price","tag-george-walker","tag-harry-lawrence-freeman","tag-john-lewis","tag-maurice-arnold-strothotte","tag-music","tag-samuel-coleridge-taylor","tag-scott-joplin","tag-will-marion-cook","tag-william-grant-still"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43092,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43090\/revisions\/43092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}