Hello all!
I've been spending time broadening my opera vocabulary during quarantine and wanted to share with you a small collection of the awesome compositions by black composers that I've either been introduced to or came across during my studies. I hope you enjoy listening to these pieces as much as I do!
Scott Joplin, ‘Treemonisha’ (1911)
H. Lawrence Freeman, ‘Voodoo’ (1914)
Anthony Davis 'X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X' (1987)
Undine Smith Moore 'Scenes from the Life of a Martyr' (1981)
Tania León 'Scourge of Hyacinths' (1994) * my personal favorite
Anthony Davis 'Amistad' (1997)
Daniel Bernard Roumain 'We Shall Not Be Moved' (2017)
Leroy Jenkins, ‘The Mother of Three Sons’ (1990)
And feel free to take a listen to these playlists that one of my friends sent to me:
