Many major orchestras and opera houses have been performing symphonies, operas, choral works, and shorter compositions by Black composers or of significant meaning to Black audiences. Terence Blanchard, Jessie Montgomery and others spoke with CNN about this recent shift.
to her complete catalog in 2018, her pieces were printed and distributed more than ever.
"What you hear is not a fully abstract world that you might get in a Brahms symphony," said Shadle, who has written program notes for orchestras performing Price's music."[Audiences] can hear that and say, 'oh, that sounds like something in my world, but I hear it in this beautiful concert hall played by 100 people working together.
"We plan to sustain this again as long as we go at it the right way and make sure that the programs make sense and are something that our audiences are eager to hear and happy to hear," Alexander said."We just have to be careful not to go to the other extreme and only program contemporary music or diverse music, which I think nobody wants or nobody is doing."
"Being a Black composer does not necessarily automatically mean that you write about Black history," she told CNN."As a Black composer, I like to write about Black history because I feel that it is good to take that responsibility of being the person that hands down the history and traditions, but as a creator, all Black composers want the freedom to write what they're going to write.
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