Family Concert: Where are all the Black Female Composers?
About Family Concert: Where are all the Black Female Composers?
About the book
Where Are All The Black Female Composers? is the first children's illustrated reference book all about Black female composers!
It takes you on a musical journey to discover many Black women who have written various kinds of classical music over the past 150 years. Read as Olivia, Callum, Zaki and Pheobe explore the lives and achievements of composers like Nora Holt, Errollyn Wallen, Kathryn Bostic, Florence Price and more.
Who wrote music with an astronaut? Who has her own Google Doodle? Who has written music in 6 different languages?
Filled with fun facts, quizzes and music, Where Are All The Black Female Composers? is the perfect introduction to past and present Black female classical composers.
Click here to find out more about the book.
Listen to the music
Music by composers mentioned in Nate Holder's book, Where Are All The Black Female Composers?, is available to listen to on free Spotify playlists! Click here to listen now.
Following this concert, stick around for a free post-concert performance from Project Remix!
This concert is supported by the ABO Sirens Fund
Programme to include:
- Perry, Short Piece for Orchestra (3mins)
- Kendall, The Spark Catchers (4mins)
- A. Coleridge-Taylor, Sussex Landscapes III (3mins)
- Wallen, Mighty River (4mins)
- Bonds, Montgomery Variations (3mins)
- Montgomery, Starburst (4mins)
- Coleman, Umoja for Wind Quintet (3.5mins)
- Riperton, Les Fleurs (5mins)
- James, Come Show Them the River (4mins)
- Okoye, Charlotte Mecklenburg
- Price, Symphony No. 1, Juba Dance (4mins)
Performers
Tess Jackson
Conductor
YolanDa Brown
Presenter
Nate Holder
Creative Associate
CBSO Youth Chorus
CBSO Children's Chorus
