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/HwkYktHFgeE Until I started researching composers for this month’s posts, I’d never heard of Dorothy Rudd Moore (born 4 June 1940), and I didn’t know any of her music. I have missed out on so much. And there is a lot of music of Moore’s to discover: song cycles, chamber works, orchestral pieces, and an opera based on the life of Frederick Douglass. Moore grew up in Delaware and went to Philadelphia Orchestra concerts from a young age. She was fascinated by the sounds that she heard and also was intrigued by the fact that almost everyone in the orchestra appeared to be male and white. Interestingly, all that made her feel was, “Hey, I can write this kind of music!” Moore won a scholarship to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and she has talked about ...