There has been significant press in recent years about the 16th-century Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano and his supposed Black ancestry. Music by Black Composers understands the excitement about such a… read more →
Many people have asked about what it takes to create a single volume of our Music by Black Composers violin series. It’s very rewarding to make this wonderful repertoire accessible… read more →
Piano teacher Kathleen Payette of Mundelein, IL organized a spectacular composers contest for her students! Using MBC’s coloring book, timeline poster, and online discography, Ms. Payette designed an educational contest… read more →
Announcing the release of three landmark Music by Black Composers publications!! Available for order today are the Music by Black Composers Violin Volume I; The Rachel Barton Pine Foundation Coloring Book… read more →
There is a lot of news at MBC! Not only are we primed to have our Volume 1 for violin available by October of this year, we are also in… read more →
On this day in 1904, Undine Smith Moore, the “Dean of Black Women Composers,” was born in Jarratt, Virginia! Moore, the granddaughter of slaves, began studying piano at the age… read more →
Another August day, another birthday shout-out! Composer T. J. (Thomas Jefferson) Anderson was born on this day in 1928 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Anderson received a Ph.D. in composition from the… read more →
An August day full of birthdays! On this day in 1888, Armand John Piron was born in New Orleans. Piron was of Creole descent, and he became a jazz violinist… read more →
Today is the 142nd anniversary of the birth of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor! Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British violinist, conductor, composer, and professor of part Creole descent. He learned to play violin… read more →
Today’s featured composer/musician is Florence Price. Florence Price (1887-1953) was an African-American composer who was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She performed piano for the first time in public when… read more →
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