After decades of never hiring an African American conductor (or a woman conductor, for that matter), the Metropolitan Opera thinks it can wi

Hailed in the New York Times as "the Shirley Temple of American Negroes," Schuyler was performing public recitals and radio broadc

During the funeral for George Floyd in Houston, the Reverend Al Sharpton quoted from Ephesians Chapter 6, or the "Letter to the Ephesia

Just last year I found a biography on the life of Clara Schumann (née Wieck). I wish I could have read this biography while I was a student.

"Practicing for Love: A Memoir" is a 2019 nonfiction autobiography written by Nina Kennedy and published by RoseDog Books. It is a

The day after the concert, Nina and former Fisk Jubilee Singer George Cooper sat down for a lively discussion in Jubilee Hall, the first per

In a letter written in Dublin in 1901, my grandmother mentions that she and the group were filmed with a "cinematograph." Of cours

The curators for the museum had asked me for some materials on my parents, which would be included in the exhibit on the Fisk Jubilee Singer

Bill Egan saw my blog on Leota Henson last year, and asked for my permission to use the photograph. The reason I had that photograph was bec

In the wake of the widely publicized sexual-abuse claims brought by violinist Lara St. John against the late Jascha Brodsky, her violin teac