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After 222 Years Of Whitewash (?) Joseph Bologne Is Starting To Get His Due.

It looks like French composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges might be getting rediscovered. This 18th century contemporary of Mozart has been lost to history almost since his lonely death in Paris in 1799. The Winston-Salem Symphony, with Music Director Timothy Redmond, is performing a play with music about this Black man, written by playwright Bill Barclay called The Chevalier – A Voice to be heard. Several people encouraged Barclay to pursue this play with music and the Winston-Salem Symphony has joined with two groups to produce it.

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Now What? The Question from the League of American Orchestras on Staccato

It’s been a tough year and a half for just about everyone. Classical music organizations are no different. The League of American Orchestras recently held its 2021 virtual conference to take a look at the orchestral landscape after the trials of 2020. So how does it look for the Austin, Texas Symphony?

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Check out some of the answers in this post from Staccato at KMFA 89.5 in Austin.

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In Honor Of George Floyd on Classical Music In Color

I'm posting the JUNE 2020 edition of Classical Music In Color which features music inspired by George Floyd and all the other men and women who died like he did.

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The Eagle And The Songbird. A book that takes you away from NOW, on Staccato

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Mayor for Life Marion Barry

There is a sadness about the death of this complicated man.  His death marks the end of an era in Washington, DC.  I covered his first mayoral campaign and would interview him more than a 30 times - before and after prison.   When I was working at WTOP Radio, he came in to do one of those "Ask the" shows.  This was YEARS after he was mayor and was now a city councilman.  He was as engaged and outraged as he ever was during his Dashiki/Big Fro days. 

Mayor Barry made some serious mistakes in and out of office but what he did for the people of the District of Columbia while he was in office was life changing.  

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RIP Mayor for Life Marion Barry of Washington, DC.  Me interviewing him in 1980 at the National Council of Black Mayors.  

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These are from the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas.

Henry Winkler at the ATX Television Festival after receiving the

Achievement in Television Excellence Award

John Beasley with Debra Mooney at the Everwood cast reunion.

He currently plays Barton Moses Ballentine – father to Cedric the Entertainer’s Reverend Sherman Boyce Ballentine on TV Land’s The Soul Man.

Photo Credit:  Jack Plunkett 

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Austin, Texas - The ATX Television Festival just blew out of town taking with it TV stars from the past, present and future.

 It’s a small festival, just getting its antennae raised after 3 years, but they starting to draw some of television’s most durable and working actors and producers.

This was originally published on Soulciti.com

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Now that Spring has finally, finally, arrived, Mother nature is beautifying the landscape, but make no mistake, her behavior is NOT that pretty.

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From Joseph Campbell - The Power Of Myth

"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you. And the life that you ought to be living is the one you're living. You begin to deal with people who are in the field of your bliss and they open doors to you. I say don't be afraid, and follow your bliss, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be". - Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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It's been 75 years since Contralto Marian Anderson sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial because she'd been denied a spot  by the DAR on their stage,  Constitution Hall, because of her  color.  The Washington Performing Arts Society held a concert near the anniversary of the event.

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