Daily Classical Music Post

This February, the Daily Classical Music Post celebrates Black composers and musicians whose music has been suppressed and ignored. All of these musicians should be added to the music history and music theory curriculum. https://youtu.be/z8h34p9tsy4 Alvin Singleton (born 1940) grew up listening to jazz but planned to be an accountant. He did get a job as an accountant but, having decided that he wanted to be a composer, decided to fill some gaps in his musical education before going to graduate school. He said in an interview, “Carman Moore was studying with Hall Overton, so I followed Carman’s advice and began studying with Hall as well. I also wanted to take Vincent Persichetti’s analysis course at Juilliard, however; he was on sabbatical and Roger Sessions was teaching instead. And then at Columbia I took a composition seminar with Charles Wuorinen, he was only a little older than me.” He was accepted to Juilliard, University of Michigan, and Yale, and decided to attend Yale to stud...